To fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

The truth which has been spoken too late is more damaging than a lie.

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

George Mitchell was a very good leader, and we were more than satisfied with his leadership. And I know the guys were jealous.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

I've wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydream. Like owning the "A-Team" van or something.

I'm not what you call your basic intellectual.

The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.

I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.

A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.

Yeah, that’s exactly what I want. To help my girlfriend get her old boyfriend back.