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.

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

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

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.

There is no limit to life. The only limit is the limit you put into life.

But now books and men had gone their separate ways. Who has the patience for a book? Only a book.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.

I am never less alone than when alone.

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities

Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.