This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

This life is slow suicide, unless you read.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaCommunity: Irrationals unified by hope of the impossible.

You're everything I hate about the rock world and yet everything I love...

Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.

The things we saw happen in the last four years of the Obama administration would all, or many of them, go away under a President Gingrich. It would be a huge setback.

So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression.

I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up, that way you're writing for the good of the song.

The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative

My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.