I never had any real security in my life until I found the false security of stardom.

A life that is planned is a closed life, my friend. It can be endured but it cannot be lived.

. . . a pity I never had children. But you're wrong. . . . I have . . . thousands of them . . . thousands of them . . . and all boys!

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.

I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising.

Have you considered the option of getting the joke? If not, try it now and redeem your soul.

That's the statement of the culture of England and Britain that someone would try to con a personal statement out of you to then be broadcast everywhere for everyone to debate.

Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.

My favorite Halloween candy is the candy corn. It comes in four colors: white, yellow, orange, brown. Those are also the stages of your teeth rotting after you eat it.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.