Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.

Within the beautiful struggle of a cocoon all butterflies are made.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

Every audition that I walk out of where I think I nailed it, I never get that job, ever.