An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.

I want great food and wine, and friends to enjoy it all.

I always hated the part when I had to look pretty. I love that I don't have to look pretty.

Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.

I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me.

Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don't make important decisions when you're angry.'

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.

I love Stella McCartney because she's timeless and classic, and I love Isabel Marant for wearability - you don't need 'an occasion' for her clothes.

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

With the duckets that I now have safe, I think I will retire at 66 years of age, praise God, in good health.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

I don't mind being distracted.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

I have a very classic take on fashion. I like my accessories to pop, but in general, my style is pretty classic.

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

When I was in acting classes early on, there were so many people in these classes who were doing great work, and you'd just look at them and say, 'Wow, I hope to someday be like that.' And yet these people never worked. You never saw them.

I love room service!

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.

Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone.

In Montana, when we did 'Return to Lonesome Dove', we rode on the side of a hill at night in the dark; I was afraid my horse would step on one of the actors playing dead. The director said to leave it to the stunt doubles since they got paid for that.

Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future.

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.