Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.

Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.

Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.

Popular journalists resort to the name Nixon to galvanize feelings that remain at rest even when the name Stalin is mentioned.

One is more admired for claiming to do good than for proving to be right.

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

Watch people when they win, and you will learn something. But watch them when they lose, and you will learn even more.

He lived on, miserable and misunderstood, as before, and increasingly lonely. One cannot write those words too often: Maurice’s loneliness: it increased.

Success-minded people need to understand that the small voice inside them is there for a reason.

Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me.

Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts

I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.

No one has patience for love except their own.

I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they think?

What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.

It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them.