I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.
Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.
Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.
With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
I still get nervous when I have a lot of makeup on, a big hairdo, and a dress.