I think that every man is afraid of his wife.

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'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.

Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.

Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.

It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.

The customer service representative hung up on me when I asked to talk to a supervisor.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Holy green guacamole! (Selena)

You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.