Adele, if you think that, no matter how mad you drive me, that I want to give you up, you are insane, possibly more insane than is healthy.

What a mess you’ve made of the simplest of subjects, Della.

Our problems may tower over us, but God towers over our problems.

Of course she’s right. How bad are things when your clinically insane mother is more rational than you are?

I'm not really thinking about what I'm talking about or what I'm willing to achieve. I'm just kind of letting it come out, recording it.

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

Think about all the selfish non-smokers out there, driving around on asphalt, drinking water out of the tap, not even thinking about how smokers' taxes help pay for it all.

I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else.

An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.

Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

[Leftists] have all these embeds in their bureaucracy and in the judiciary. So even when they lose elections they have ample positions of power occupied by career invisibles.

I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.