We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.

If we get it right, there need not be losers.

She looks uptown, but she ain't really. She's into football, she likes my chili.

People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.

I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people.

All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored

I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot of the Soviets' moves as stemming from a basic sense of insecurity.

Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

As cold waters to a thirsty soul so is good news from a far country.

Life insurance in America has traditionally been dominated by mutual insurers. Twelve of the fifteen largest life insurers are mutuals.

If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft

Nurture is like psychic Wheaties.

A Saudi Arabian prince has said that oil may never again rise above $100 a barrel. He said it's gotten so bad he can't afford to buy his wife her own car that she's not allowed to drive.

Pele should go back to the museum.

Living is a horizontal fall.

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.