...a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit.

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.

Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. "I fry mine in butter!" indeed.

Persecution happens when we stand in the face of our enemy. Friendship with the world is to conspire with that same enemy.

Any victory is first won spirituality.

When it comes to creating things, I compete with nature not with men.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

It's so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to have people let you do smart things.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

I do Jiu Jitsu so I can protect you when I fight you.

Highways are full of careless drivers who are always too close in front of you.