"Old wives don't dieif they're getting alimony"

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

"I'm not an ambulance chaser. I'm usually there before the ambulance."

"As pity moved into that hole inside her, she discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love."

"What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams."

"If you accept being sanctified, you have to accept being vilified."

"But be, as you have been, my happiness..."

"Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves."

"People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things."

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing."

"Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way."

"There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm."