If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.

Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying "Arise, sir Knight" deserves a life sentence in Camelot.

Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.

Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of 'National Geographics,' is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.

The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine."

Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?

We forgive only that which requires forgiveness. To do otherwise is wasteful of grace.” -- Laniel, Abbot of Bilkar the Furred

Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law.

Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

Oy vey, these guys is New York's spineless Strangled and denied it for Anthony Baez

The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.

I don't sing in the shower at all, and I don't sing in the shower, either.

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.

No two snowflakes are alike.

I love a good massage, and they gotta go deep.