I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
Let them obey that know not how to rule.
My mother listened to everything I said, carefully - not that what I said was particularly interesting, but I was her daughter.
I like to keep my money at the end of the day.
In 1981, I was a community organizer.
The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.
When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?
When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers.
Where god gives hard bread he also gives sharp teeth.
Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...' And then do it.
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
I ride public transport a lot and every now and then I come across someone emanating a strong odor and it's obvious.
I just execute the plays that they call.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
He that is warm thinks all so.
Silence was never written down.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
