Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever bed are, in a sense, health-giving; the change in body temperature, the change in pulse , and the change of scene have a restorative effect on the system equal to the hell they raise.

A writer should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.

In every queen there's a touch of floozy.

It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.

I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.

Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.