Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

What I wouldn't give to find a soul mate, someone else to catch this drift.

The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.

Britain has a lot of wind. It's our wind. We don't have to import it.

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.

I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.

I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.