You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content.

You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.

With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems.

No one is going to fire me now. If and when I leave, I'll be the one to make the decision

In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it, all right.

Your destination should determine who you choose as friend

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Most modern comedy is crap.

I was unhappy and I couldn't figure out what was the matter. And he told me to go take a writing course. And I didn't even know that one could learn to write in writing courses.

Donald Trump envies anyone who can do things he can't.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.

Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].