Poetry was the maiden I loved but politics was the harridan I married.

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

Don't keep looking for "something" in the bag of "nothing". You will see the same thing again and again no matter how many times you repeat the look.

The rewards of tomorrow are safely hidden in the belief of never quitting and not giving up on yourself today

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live, ' and that is so cool.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

You have to understand the purpose of life. The purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.

Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects?

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

Many who take up burdens come to resent being put upon.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.