Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.

The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it.

The truthe wakes up once and never dies.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.

The feminist women's organization NOW has endorsed Carol Moseley-Braun for president. Once again NOW has shown it is so far behind the times it should change its name to THEN.

Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence.

Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.