A body would think that your heart was as black as your face. People thinks now that sweeps is black all through instead of blackall over.

Oh, I know my family's not of royal blood, but you needn't throw it in my face all the time.

Better have a black face than be worried about black deeds.

Some friendship is closely akin to treachery.

If God made me a princess, why didn't he take a little more time and make my hair so it wouldn't snarl?

It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends.

We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can't entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm.

Other countries have access to the markets, whereas Greece does not. Therefore, we have to get liquidity through the ECB.

I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old

I want to have time. When you're doing a monthly book, you're like a man racing after a bus. You're breathless and red-faced. I want to build in quality control.

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.