"You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it."

"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."

"A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death."

"Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about."

"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."

"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use."

"There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so."