I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.

This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.

With all my traveling around the world I would say that South Vietnam was not as corrupted as people want to talk about it because it is a matter of degrees.

How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an abiding faith in our Creator?

Correct. President Wallis was the president before the Chinese assault and continued leading the United States throughout the war

When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.

Coach showed he believed in me. So I had to believe in myself.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.