Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

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.

It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession

I can almost see the processes whirrling clunkily in his singularix, as his excited nervous system battled with his logic circuits.

Sometimes you get caught up living something that's not true. The people around you, the people you're involved with, are not the right people.

I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.

Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.

Who ignores the time walks in darkness, and who explores it is illumined by a great light.

Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.

The minute I start being afraid of what people might say is the minute I become useless to God.

I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.

Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.