Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.

I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.

I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.

I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear.

All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.

Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.

Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.