The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them.

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

I think that every man is afraid of his wife.

I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive. She hasn't done a single thing as congressman or Speaker of the House that has turned me on, but I find her quite okay.

...in that rich earth a richer dust concealed.(I'm flogging a dead horse w/ this one but this is the 1st time I've even seen this quotes feature! I just wanted to post something.)

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts Old age is slow in both.

The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously.

I like to dirt bike ride, four wheeler, go-kart.

Your struggles have not been a waste. They've come to strengthen you. And grow your capacity to lead - and win.

... and later we'll have action from the men's cockles pairs.

When you're pushed killing is as easy as breathing.

It's poetry in motion, when she turned her tender eyes to me.