There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.

We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon.

I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

There are so many different kinds of people in America, with so many different boiling points, that we don't know how to fight with each other. The set piece that shapes and contains quarrels in homogeneous countries does not exist here. The Frenchman is an expert on the precise gradations of espèce de and the Italian knows exactly when to introduce the subject of his other's grave, but no American can be sure how or when another will react, so we zap each other with friendliness to neutralize potentially dangerous situations.

Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.