How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day just cease to exist?

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.

we talk of plans that are going to happen.we talk of the future, as if we know we will last.there is a sort of comfort in that.

Any spending should be debated openly on the floor of the House and voted on in open session, with the American people having a chance to watch and listen.

Never memorize what you can look up in a book.

Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.

Scientists say the European space probe that landed on the comet has detected organic matter. This means there could be either life in space or a Whole Foods. We just don't know.

The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man.

I have the utmost respect for the different faiths professed by my fellow men.

There was always something missing in Montreal.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place.