There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.
An unemployed jester is nobody's fool.
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.
Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.
When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.
The secret of staying fresh in a show is to remember that the audience you're playing for that night has never seen it before.
After all is said and done, its usually the wife who has said it and the husband who has done it.
I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back.
We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.
After Donald Trump wrote Lindsey Graham's cellphone number on a piece of paper and showed it to everybody, Graham said he's getting a new phone. Which explains Lindsey Graham's latest campaign slogan, 'New phone, who dis?'
To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.