"In placing my trade I had no improper information. My transaction was entirely lawful."

"I love all of you from the bottom of my heart, ... and I'm really glad to be back home."

"I'm used to all kinds of hard work, as you know. I'm not afraid whatsoever."

"Many, many people have suffered. People have lost jobs. I am very saddened and very, very sorry for that."

"I look forward to collaborating with Mark... to bring more of our unique blend of original high-quality, educational and inspirational programming to our loyal viewers and new programming to new audiences in prime time next year,"

"[On her reputation for hubris] I have sometimes, probably, forgotten -- and I know I have -- to pat the back of someone or said 'thank you' enough times or maybe even once sometimes, ... I wish I were perfect. I wish I were just the nicest, nicest, nicest person on Earth. But I am a business person....If I were a man no one would ever say that I was arrogant."

"When they were preparing for trial, prosecutors had a responsibility to ask [Agent Stewart] -- 'you didn't write the first report, you didn't sign off on it -- were you there?'"

"I am very interested in entrepreneurial initiative. Wherever I find it, I'm always encouraging it ... and trying to give them good advice, sound advice...."

"The board of directors (at Martha Stewart Living) may be a little nervous"

"to show what Martha Stewart Living was really all about to the broadest possible audience, the kind of executive that I really am and the kind of work we do."

"We tried very hard to choose contestants that would be good for a job at Martha Stewart Living, ... It's not very different from what reality is."

"She's disappointed over feeling like her life was wasted. Everything she did is ignored over something ... trivial, that maybe didn't happen,"

"Take a New Look at Living."

"[He also considered how his sentence on] a young, black woman entertainer ... an older white woman entertainer."

"This is a victory for the little guys ... No one is above the law."

"I didn't cheat the little people. ... We're all little people. I didn't cheat anybody out of anything."

"I am heartsick about my personal legal situation -- and deeply sorry for the pain and difficulties it has caused our employees."

"The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers."

"Drama - what literature does at night."

"I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost."

"Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul."

"Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve."

"Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value."

"The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time."

"Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds."

"Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry."

"I drink so the others become interesting."

"The triumph of sugar over diabetes."

"Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful."

"The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life."

"The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions."

"There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself."

"A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other."

"There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes."

"An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did."

"Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud."

"The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others."

"The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do."

"A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs."

"Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember."

"All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky."

"A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart."

"Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired."

"So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater."

"It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid."

"I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink."

"Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen."

"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."

"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."

"One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright."