If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be w... - Eleanor Roosevelt

"A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water."

"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."

"Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."

"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."