When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

Higher energy always wins and the light always drowns out the darkness.

Blaming Obama for Iraq violence is like blaming Daniel Craig because Octopussy sucked.

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming.

Everything has an end.

There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.

The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

The only way to improve tomorrow is to know what you did wrong today.

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.