In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.