Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!

All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.

He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.

I have a great deal of experience in justifying myself to myself.

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

The lack of understanding does not hurt, as much as the lack of effort to understand does !

There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them.

Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.

. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation.