All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

We are lucky to live in a world made up of so many different kinds of people and I am confident in the direction we are going.

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.

God, how I have wasted my life.

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?