You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God.

I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.

I feel much better, now that I've given up hope.

I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And thats what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]

The real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself.

I get a lot of joy from playing instruments, and I have a different personality on each instrument. I like to let that come out. I get kind of selfish.

I'm comfortable with my femininity, and I don't try to change what I look like just because I'm reporting on football at the end of the night.

What is not in nature can never be true.