I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.
[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
Clearly the secret of happiness. . . is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.
A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots. '
When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you.