Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

A girl is a soul at sunrise.

It means a lot to be compared to Eric Roberson. He's a hero of mine.

Golf is hugely important, as it keeps me going.

If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.

The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

I was not fortunate enough to run into Obama. We were at the same church per se, but I would never be there when he was there.

I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.