One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.