It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.

The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.

The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.

A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.

I am planting a tree in this bomb crater to remind us that in the midst of death, there is life... and hope.

If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.

There was a sense of tightness in the room now, filling the space. Attraction was like that. It filled. It poured into you like batter into a pan, sticking to the sides.

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.

I love Cheryl [Hines] so much and had so much fun with her. Off set we got on so well and would tell stories.

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?