Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless of their own and other tribes when abandoned.

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out with somebody else the next night, we often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women!

When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.

In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.

I think it's great for the women to show that they are women and be feminine. And that's something that I've always promoted.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I never thought that I would get married, but it wound up happening. That was a really, really happy, exciting moment.

That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.

I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'

There's no amount of money that would make me decide something for a career.

I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can get that same high with that same person again.

The Iowa Women's Health Study, which has followed more than 35,000 women for decades, found eating more broccoli, cauliflower, kale and other cruciferous vegetables was associated with a lower risk of getting non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the first place.

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

I think 'accessible' just means that the reader can walk into the poem without difficulty. The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry.

Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet.