If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

Strangers are what friends are made of.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.

The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

Perhaps Nesta will take up the blood-drinking habit, too. I certainly believe her threat to rip out my throat. Maybe she'll enjoy the taste.

I have yet to go through a struggle I didn't smile at later.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live.

Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U.S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.