“A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones”

“The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.”

“Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great. ”

“In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete.”

“Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.”

“I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.”

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitud...”

“The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.”

“I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.”

“What young people didnt know, she thought, lying down beside this man, his hand on her shoulder, her arm; oh, what young people did not know. They did not know that lumpy, aged, and wrinkled bodies...”

“Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”