In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.

Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.