My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978.

President George Bush declared a National Day of Prayer for Peace. This was after he had carefully arranged and started the war.

The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how true they often were. Here they were, banding together in packs, so I could predict what they were going to say about some event or conflict and it wasn't even out of their mouths yet. I was very uncomfortable with that. Liberal orthodoxy was as repugnant to me as conservative orthodoxy.

Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

Somebody once said that Hollywood is based on a lot of producers deliberately making bad movies, and every now and then somebody gets lucky.

The planet isn't going anywhere. We are.