As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!!

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

It's interesting, editing can be so immersive for me that I've noticed that the authors I edit have a pretty profound effect on how I hear language for a while.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

I think that's what we love about the vodka, is that it's consistent. It's consistent in its pureness and that's how I tie it to restaurants.