"The best way to learn to be..." - Quote by Mae West

“I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.”

“When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?”

“I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.”

“The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.”

“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”

“I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.”

“Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.”

“A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye, and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have not: a beard neglected; which you have not: — but I pardon you for that; for, simply, your having1 in beard is a younger brother's revenue: — Then your hose should be ungarter'd, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation.”

“Aside from Velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe.”