Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.

'Haunted by the past' is a commonplace phrase because it's a commonplace experience. Even if one is not, strictly speaking, 'haunted', the past is perpetually with one in the present, and the longer it grows and the further it recedes the stronger its presence seems to become.

It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.

Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo shot the heir to the Austrian throne, but by some semiliterate, whacked-out "loner" who lobs a rocket into a nuclear arsenal in order to impress Brooke Shields.