Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.