This nation is so friendly that the leading cause of injury is getting passionately embraced by strangers.

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.

The distinction between "assistant" and intern" is a simple one: assistants are paid, interns are not.But of course interns are paid, in experience.

A dangerous and treacherous path is only worth it when the desire to have courage outweighs the driving need to get to the other side.

Good evening, you poor little Orphans of a Loveless God. Good evening to you blood sucking fools.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

Only when a disputed point has long caused bloodshed and disturbance, or when a successful invader (military or theological) insists on a change, is it necessary to draw up a code.

You cannot kill an idea by murdering innocent people — though you can nudge it toward suicide.

There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.

As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.

I can't stand that - those women in 'Waiting to Exhale' now. I can't stand them. But that's because I'm 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.