"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all."

"Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual."

"Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience."

"Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L.A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer."

"Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them."

"For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country."

"Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know."

"Knowledge is true opinion."

"PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters."

"The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives."

"Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity."

"Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world."