The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

The geologic column is a bunch of balarky.

If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.

Why do people always say change is the only constant? It so sounds Oxymoron

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

I love any opportunity I have to make music.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

Casual obedience and lukewarm commitment weaken faith.

War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

We owe thankfulness to God, not sour faces.