Everybody has two swings-a beautiful practice swing and the choked-up one with with which they hit the ball. So it wouldn't do either of us a damned bit of good to look at your practice swing.

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

Rumors and Manure both get spread around but only one is beneficial

Death by creaming

If you don’t make time for writing, writing won’t make time for you.

Natural law has decreed it so. Isn't death as much a part of the flow as life? Why fight it? Because maybe the flow splashes into a bottomless pit past that blind turn.

Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.

To love means you also trust.

Even if I make a fool of myself, it's better to have tried.

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me.

How does the phrase radical Islamic terrorism link all the believers of a faith to terrorism? If I said radical Christian terrorism, does that mean I as a Catholic are a terrorist?