[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Remember that you are here for more than a bunch of flesh.

Veterans are generally reluctant to seek mental health care.

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

What makes me vulnerable is speaking up about topics that may be controversial to others.

A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now.

I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.

Skating has given me so much that it's priceless.

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

There was, like, this black hole where the world used to be, and we were both falling toward it. What could we hold on to?

Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue.