There are no hopeless situations. There are only people who have grown hopeless about them.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.”

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, she doesn't have what it takes. They will say, women don't have what it takes.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

No good deed goes unpunished.

You know, that’s the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

I can’t avoid writing. It’s a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

When a man can’t explain a woman’s actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.