When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.

He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.

Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.

I have a great deal of experience in justifying myself to myself.

Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

She sat in her perfect house, with her perfect husband, wishing that her perfect life would end.

Is that not always the case? Given any two people in a relationship, one will always love more, the other less. Right?

Everything that has calories in my kitchen is my favorite

We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

I was just born to swing, that's all.

I have enough to think about - I just don't ever want to have to think about my car.