It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.

Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.

It seems to me there's so much more to the world than the average eye is allowed to see. I believe, if you look hard, there are more wonders in this universe than you could ever have dreamt of.

No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.

I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES!

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

I have been crying, " she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man.

We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.

Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging.

For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.

I'm confident and really optimistic.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.