The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Children and fools always speak the truth.

Thinking little of yourself is not humility.

He's an irrelevant person. Learn to spot irrelevant people. Don't expect someone who doesn't know who they are to care who you are.

I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.

Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. There are smart people out there with tools and skills to come up with great ideas.

You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.

I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

I can never forgive God for having invented the French