The Wise Old One

What every woman eventually realizes:

Sultanates are run by sultans. Kingdoms are run by kings. So, countries are run by...never mind.

They were just children, you utterly contemptible bastards.

If that man (@realDonaldTrump) ever had a thought, it would die of loneliness.

Under your fearless shit-gibbon's new plan, rape is a pre-existing condition; being a buffoon, apparently, is not: nymag.com/thecut/2017/05…

Better to walk slowly than to hurry but then be forced to take steps back.

In these times one is forced to make a choice between being aware of what is happening in the world and preserving one's sanity.

Nothing quite as threatening to the establishment as an angry woman--unless it's hundreds and thousands of angry women.

How is a man born to wealth trusted to uplift the impoverished? This is the triumph of aspiration over logic.

Only love is both intensely, forbiddingly heavy and condensed in its intensity, at the same time almost completely weightless--like breath.

Tomorrow, America will set its clock back an hour. On Tuesday, America may set it back 100 years.

Advice is always free; it's the right answer that costs.

True success means never having to introduce oneself.

You can march to the beat of your own drum but that does not mean that the rest of the band will follow.

Who needs enemies when you have family.

I lack the luxury of the ignorance required to presume that I am always right.

The superiority of the human race should be balanced with the fact that it took 3 centuries for us to realize we could put wheels on luggage

Oh yes, the human brains seems a most amazing thing until you consider the sorts of actions it compels us to do.

If needing to lose a few pounds in a hurry, a healthy dose of romantic despair combined with a measure of nihilistic cynicism helps.

Husbands who laugh at their wive's choices are deliciously unaware of the irony of it all.