Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.