Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.

Forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting to remember, but remembering to forget.

You have to have a balance and understand that as much as you would like to have absolute control over everything, it's just not realistic.

I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on.

The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.

I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman.

Someone once said that two halves make a whole. And when two halves move in together, it makes a whole lot of stuff.

The human heart is a dark forest.

Passion is the genius of genius.