People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.

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.

New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have I fed it to the cat, at the cat's insistence, but the cat has thrown it up on the rug, and someone has tracked it all over onto the other rug. I do not know why cats are such habitual vomiters. They do not seem to enjoy it, judging by the sounds they make while they are doing it. It's their nature. A dog is going to bark. A cat is going to vomit.