Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.

Be afraid of nothing.

[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?

It's my new best friend, Claudius Templesmith, and as I expected it, he's inviting us to a feast.

Don't celebrate how old you are, celebrate the years you survived.

#Writers, #artists, and #poets don't get the respect they deserve until they are either dead, or they cut off an ear Mozaiah T.

Life is a dream from which there is but one awakening.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

We know that the world is not resting on the horn of a bull; we also know that it rests on the horn of lies!

I used to sit when I was a kid, from 14 or 15 on, with a book or a paper or a magazine in front of a mirror and teach myself to speak with a more straight mouth, so it wasn't so pronounced.

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.