I am in the prime of my senility.

I am in the prime of my senility.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

Even if I could, I wouldn't want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music.

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.

My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.

I am a bookworm.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

I got more whistleblowers from the Secret Service than I do anywhere else. And if you look at that department and agency, it's the one place you can never, ever, ever make a mistake - ever.

Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs.

If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

Like anyone else there are days I feel beautiful and days I dont and when I dont I do something about it.

I took a decision that I wanted to be a long-term player in Congo.

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

I'm probably the furthest from being romantic that you've ever seen; I'm not even close to being romantic in any way until I have to be.

Girls are having babies when they are younger and combining kids with work. I don't know if it's always been there or if I'm just more aware because I'm in this situation.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Being a Catholic is the most important aspect of my life.

If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.