There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

The more things change the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose.)

I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.

As long as you're going to be thinking, think big.

I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.

Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.

I mean it," I said. "You're in danger." "Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

Women are much more honourable than men.

The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.