Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Defiance through compliance.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

The greatest duty of life is to find the ultimate purpose of life. The second greatest duty is to put a laser focus on it and take action.

Every opportunity has challenges and when you overcome it, it turns to rewards.

That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

I do get funny people sometimes coming up to me in supermarkets in America with my picture in their pocket, which is a bit strange.

The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.