Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal -- I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster.

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.