Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.

Quality is the best business plan.

We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money as long as we get our hands on it?

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

The science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better.

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.

It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to time shall be thrown across our paths.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

Oh, jeez, please kill that metaphor,...Or kill me. One or the other.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.