A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.

I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran.

The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes. Their feet are arched.

The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

I was trying to disturb the war.

I have to say that Donald Trump is on probably about the 13th minute of fame.

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.

The two-headed boy in the circus never had such a headache.