Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

May you find the right path to travel on.

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.

I don't think there should be a Palestinian state because I don't believe in states.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

God created black people and black people created style.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'