The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

The purpose of Karate is to guide you out of trouble by any means necessary, both in actual combat and in life

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.

What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.

I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks too.

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

Songs Like Mony Mony aren't really written, they're sort of hanging in space - waiting to be found - I'm just thankful we found this one.