The great thing about America is, you don't have to listen unless you want to.
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good. . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist. . . They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.
At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
Normal' is a dryer setting.
The first essential for an attack is the will to attack.
Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H. G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time machines, et cetera, taking them literally, not caring if they are possible or even plausible. It has no interest in or relation to real science or technology. It's fantasy in space suits. Spectacle. Wizards with lasers. Kids with ray guns. I've written both, but I have to say I respect science fiction enough that I wince when people call it sci-fi.
It's very hard to accept that stoning still exists in the world today.