In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

When there’s darkness, there are all kinds of evil things happening, rebellion is there, and corruption is operating.

I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old.

We are brothers and sisters. We are a sacred family.

He has a vision of his life as a sliver of soap, worn and used and smoothed into a slender, blunt-edged arrow-head, a little more of it disintegrating with every day.

The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.

Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves...After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do.

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

We get a lot of cheese, no mice with that.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.