Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

(About sweeping)....What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.

-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself?-Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.

(About a cookbook...)- What about this one? Maids of Honor?- Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.

It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another

It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there though.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

Every child is a gifted child.

There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.