If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.

It's the same at a rock-and-roll concert. You have an opening number with a strong entrance; then you go through a lot of the old standards, building up to your hit song at the end.

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

Her hair was strawberry blond, and she had the shape of a popsicle stick: turn her sideways and she practically disappeared.

If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me?

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

Feathertail... No, don't leave me!

Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

I don't have a Bloomberg on my desk. I don't care.

My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.