pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.

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.

We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now.""I was going to watch Project Runway.

The telling of stories creates the real world.

We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.

Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.

I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.

I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction

The way out is through the door you came in.