Well, well, well, " said Aitch Dee, his arms folded across his chest. "Well, well, well, well, " replied Pavel, not to be out welled.

A red eight-sided sign always means: A) Stop. B) Go. C) Danger! Red octogons ahead!

What's a wingding? Why, a wingding is, uh...it's just like a shindig but without all the hullabaloo.

He's getting away you idiots! Shoot him. I'm wearing Spider-Man underpants!

Gone are the days when the old country doctor would drive out to your house and amputate your infected leg for a basket of goose eggs and a rhubarb pie.

I'm one-half Cherokee, one-half Irish, one-half Turkish, one-half Australian and one-half Korean." "Excuse me, but that's five halves, " said Maggie.

I'll get it, " said Jough in his man-of-the-house voice, a full octave lower than his regular voice.

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?

Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star.

It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't.

Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.

I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that's the case, you ain't self-made.

Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .