Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous.

To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far I can take them. Voltaire himself might have invented the bicycle, since it contributes so much to man’s welfare and nothing at all to his bane. Beneficial to the health, it emits no harmful fumes and permits only the most decorous speeds. How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm?

Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.