Terrorism n.Violence for political purposes or the politically motivated threat of violence which, either intentionally or unintentionally, challenges the state's monopoly on political violence.

Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.

Today I am amused, and I haven't seen anyone yet.

You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her, especially when tempered with the silence and respect which her rank will inevitably excite.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

Happy hour?' Jason says. 'It's barely noon, Grams'Oh, shush, you. You'll have some, yes?''Well'-he smiles slyly and wiggles his eyebrows-'if you insist'. Every time, it's the same thing. Leaning in, he rubs his hands together expectantly. The drinking age in New York State was raised last year, so technically, I suppose, this is still illegal for my grandson. But the Jews didn't spend forty years wandering the desert so that I could forfeit a gin and tonic with my progeny...

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

I am so obsessed with the cars that sometimes I feel like my heart is not a muscle, it's an engine.