Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

All of us are products of our childhood.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

My art and profession is to live.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

I am not young enough to know everything.