Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.

I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.

The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.” Another one said, “To describe blow-jobs artistically.

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War.