I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

The solution to our water problems is more rain.

As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

The best of us would rather be popular than right.