By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.

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.

And all these things she always counted on to revisit, they made up a map, the map of a true home. It was the only place where she felt she had an identity and a history behind her.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.

Directors never direct me. They just let me loose.

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.