Tridents (sic) are not weapons of mass destruction.

I have just committed the mortal sin of laughing in the Members' Library. No-one around here has done that for a while.

I think Sarah Palin is amazing. I totally admire her.

Because what we have done, we have thrown clothes off and they have picked them up and put them on.

When thou doest alms do not let thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.

Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary.

that's as nutty as squirrel turds

A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?