When I was seven I believed in God so I told Him I was sorry about kicking my sister and to “please not condemn me to eternal suffering in the interminable fires of Perdition for my transgressions.

The Girl does not dream. The Girl has never dreamed.

I once heard that contractions are like this: a belt around your middle that is tightened agonizingly in ever elongating instances that arrange themselves in a pattern of pain.

What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?

GRACE means God does the work. FAITH means I let Him.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

A speech that's full of sparkling wit will keep its hearer grinning provided its end is close to its beginning.

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

I'm talking about the finding in October that is public now of 17 different intelligence agencies saying Russia tried to meddle with our elections.

Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.

Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion.

I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him.