Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for as long as I can remember I have made them with my fingers and felt them in my bones.

I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.

Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always sounds like he's thinking about what he's saying while he's saying it, and that's a rare thing in politicians.