There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.