One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both.

When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.

When a man can observe himself suffering and is able later to describe what he's gone through it means he was born for literature.

There is something to be said for rain, the sharing of an intimate caress with the leaves, blades of grass and all the living and the dead creatures to remind us we are connected.~Lyn Crain

Marry someone who loves you because he was not only going to make you happy but he would never hurt you one millimeter too

Some women are just better at knowing what they want, which saves them the trouble of wasting too much time on the wrong guy.

It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles

She [Justice Sandra Day O'Connor], unlike, Judge Bork, did not think that being on the court would be an "intellectual feast," to quote Judge [Robert Heron] Bork.

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

I am the beast, Feed me rappers or feed me beats

For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.

A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn't know before.

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.