Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Ladies, being able to submit to your future husband requires a deeper trust in God who created him.

Everybody calls me "Marty." I never know what to call myself.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

I'm a cup of tea in a world of lattes.

If the internet has taught us anything, it's that you want less news and more cats.

Men become old, but they never become good.

G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.

To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.