Nothing's free and only the cheaper things can be bought with money.

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

And the first king was a lucky soldier.