This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat content.

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

I regard President Trump as an international terrorist.

Never criticize, complain or condemn. Never forget to appreciate with love what is good in a person.

A bookstore is one of the many pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It's about having an attitude of gratitude.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

A written constitution guides and directs the application of law in a way utterly unlike oral guidance. It reminds us that the certainty and consistency of legal application is essential.

Troubled is a polite word for what I am.

Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure.