Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

I think people believe what they want to believe.

I was a very sad little girl.

You have to devote yourself totally to be successful at it.

It's now much more 50-50 in favour of Everton.

I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on television.

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

Music is a means of rapid transportation.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth.