Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

Let the enemies of life step down.

It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.