At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

Motherhood is when eating chicken soup

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

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Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

Everybody is making predictions who is going to win. I am no different than you.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

I will be a president in a skirt, but I will wear the pants.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

Life can seem rather unreal at times. Alive and well and loving one day. No longer there the next.

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.