Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr's law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

I will read anything rather than work.