I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.

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.

You are never listening to what someone is saying, you are only ever listening to what you are hearing

The fact that you don't feel Him [God] holding you doesn't change the fact that He still is.

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

Man lives by imagination.

It's so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets.

I knew it was all or nothing.

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit.

Americans are not saving enough for retirement.

Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan.