The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Defiance through compliance.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time

Futurity is the great concern of mankind.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

And the guelder rose In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped, Her wealth about her feet.

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.