Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression.

If we make one criterion for defining the artist the impulse to make something new, or to do something in a new way – a kind of divine discontent with all that has gone before, however good – then we can find such artists at every level of human culture, even when performing acts of great simplicity.

Britons put up with, Americans fix, Canadians cope.

Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

Too many people, when they reject God, go on believing in the devil. Many intellectuals have a sense of evil without a confidence in good.

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality...

You are totally unique. Just like everyone else.

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.

The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It’s one reason why they don’t die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.