All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

It's two days until tax time. I know it's late, but there is still time to deduct this show as a loss.

How you mean? How you mean? What you know about the team? You just know what you get told girl I see behind the scene

You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe.

What's a hero if not for its journey.

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.