The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

Women united can create movements. We can empower entire generations. We can build peace one action at a time. Together we rise. The time is now.

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

I try to take one day at a time but sometimes several days attack me at once.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

I will take my hands off Medicare when there is no Medicare, then I will come and see you, sir.

Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

My kids are really easy. I often worry that they're too easy to deal with. They're really nice people.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.