Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up.
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
The number one thing I've been doing is being daddy.
The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.
I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.