Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

All those big words produce disgust today.

There is nothing called as truth, it's just your new perception

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but it begins with you. You have the power to take the first step toward a better future.

Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.

Legislators consistently put the political imperative before the national interest.

I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them.

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable.

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.

Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.