I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what music can be. But people don't learn to do that anymore, so eloquence is merely a matter of waste. Who needs a good vocabulary and proper English? Eloquence - it's dead and who needs it?

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.

Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.