Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'

Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream!

[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

We all scribble poetry.

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.