Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Opposition is the very spur of love.

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

Glory is the child of peril.

And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

Write what you want, everything else is gravy

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people.

What something is depends more on when it is than anything else.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Today's Father Day and we're giving you a tie, it's not much you know, it's just our way of showing you, you're a regular guy.

There's a difference, though, between being a political appointee and putting a political operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office.

So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.