Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

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.

The mind has no archetype. It is an ever-changing ever-evolving paradigm.

But grief changes. It softens, adapts its shape to become a part of you. That kind of sorrow never gets any lighter, but you grow accustomed to the weight as you carry it on.

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

Every season is filled with lessons.

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

Music isn't only a profession.

Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.