Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

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.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

If you want to see the big stuff that God has, you've got to take some risk and trust only in the Gospel.

I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.

Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.

To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk.