"Life is so unlike theory." Anthony Trollope
"I don't like authority. At least I don't like other people's authority." Arthur Christopher Benson
"Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money." Robert Penn Warren
"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." Leonard Lebitsky
"I cannot say that Mailer was drunk the whole time he was on camera. I can only *hope* he was drunk."
"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time." Willem de Kooning
"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way any more. They leave it on the dresser." Shirley MacLean Beaty
"If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them." Sue Grafton
"[I propose to create a] Commission on Erections and Mounting." Richard M. Daley, Jr.
"Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?" Barbra Streisand