How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'

E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them.

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

I think that every man is afraid of his wife.

I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive. She hasn't done a single thing as congressman or Speaker of the House that has turned me on, but I find her quite okay.

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

Learning is not filling up a box but seeing and imagining what we can create with it.

Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.

I believe Donald Trump is the best guy for president; and I'm not going to shy away and I take the risk. I could just stay home and don't talk about any candidate.

I trust my arm as much as I trust my legs.

The first thing a hurdler learns is how to fall.

We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.