Who's to say who's an expert?

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

You only grow when you are alone.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else.

Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.

I am mentally bifocal.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

The mind is the great poem of winter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and ice.