When posh boys get into trouble they sack the servants.

I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax.

Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

It's going to be hard for someone like me to run for president.

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

Yesterday, the Senate voted to approve President Clinton's decision to send troops to Bosnia. And they voted to change the name of that mission to "Operation Forget About Whitewater".

Walk really, really carefully. It's not complicated, but if you mess up, you'll die, so pay attention.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

[The producer told me:] "We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does." Those records never did anything. My music never got mentioned. My color got mentioned.

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

Nothing else even comes close.