"Everyone's going to have a racist tweet, a homophobic tweet, a xenophobic tweet, a misogynist tweet. Everyone's going to have a tweet or a post or something that's not going to be ideal, and because of that, you can't really throw stones too hard at the people that do, because if we examined your life in every way, shape, or form, went through every single post with a fine-toothed comb and under that microscope, would it come out all sunshine and lollipops?"

“I love to entertain. I love being able to make people laugh.”

“Bulls and bears aren't responsible for as many stock losses as bumsteers.”

“Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of another flowing.”

Source : Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

“swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.”

Source : Mary Collyer (1749). “Felicia To Charlotte: Being Letters From A Young Lady in the Country, To Her Friend in Town : Containing A Series of the Most Interesting Events, Interspersed with Moral Reflections ...”, p.203

“While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.”

Source : "Q&A: Odom on an Iraq Exit Strategy". Interview with Bernard Gwertzman, www.nytimes.com. May 7, 2004.

“When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.”

“I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, but George Bush has just put us so greatly into debt; now Obama's going to make it even worse. So, it's basically highway robbery, and I think it's a tragedy.”

“Your eyes in which I travel Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth.”

Source : Paul Eluard (1988). “Selected Poems”, London : Calder ; New York : Riverrun Press