There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.

I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.

There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.

Government is not show business.

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.

If only I had wings, I would not hesitate to fly away from my mistakes.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.

You don't gossip while your man is driving. You sit there quietly until you're about 5 minutes from your destination then you say, would you like some road head?

The industry doesn't want you to know the truth about what you're eating, because if you knew, you might not want to eat it.

Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panoptican.

I'm second in doubles - double vodkas, double scotches.

No matter how tired or stressed you are, just by getting dressed and rolling your sleeves up, you can accomplish almost anything.

All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to.

Winter is ruthless and sometimes sullen and murderous. The wild winter North has gulped ten thousand summers down nor left a froth of sunshine on its lips.