Courtesy of tongue," said Rowena, "when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown.["]

Politicians are people who learn not to blink, when they lie.

I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.

Realistically, most people have poor filters for sorting truth from fiction, and there’s no objective way to know if you’re particularly good at it or not. Consider the people who routinely disagree with you. See how confident they look while being dead wrong? That’s exactly how you look to them.

When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.

I personally believe a person who’d tell little children, their own little children no less, lies about a fat man in a red suit and an egg hiding rabbit will in turn believe the lies out of Washington like little children.