I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.