While I live, every criminal must die.

In looking for the keys of paradise, a pope may stoop a little; having found them, he should rise again.

It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world.

…she simply accepted it for what it was — a normal, average, everyday kind of miracle.

Heart disease is a foodborne illness.

A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.

You can't escape the puking sphinx.

Spin the parasol three times and repeat after me: I shield in the name of fashion. I accessorize for one and all. Pursuit of truth is my passion. This I vow by the great parasol.

I think there's a lot that the larger society could have been taught or can be taught, but I'm not sure - given how unyielding the larger society has been - that much has been learned.

Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.

I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

I don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.