The places where trails do not exist are not well marked.

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.

To protect themselves, the weak focus on the "bad" in people. Conversely, the strong, who fear little, focus on the "good".

There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.

Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they'd still want love.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much more when that is the case.