Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

I'm a born liar myself and I know how it's done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pretend to volunteer a few bits of information, but the facts are all carefully selected for effect.

I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating.

I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career

Yes, I am old enough to grow a beard actually. So ner-ner-ner-ner

In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires me.

I don't understand what I did wrong except live a life that everyone is jealous of.

There is inevitably a trade-off between staffing and safety, and as a society we must decide where that balance should be struck.

What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.