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“To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.”
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“Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'”
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“A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be”
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“She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.”
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“I understand the Second Amendment. I support it. People have the right to bear arms.”
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“Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.”
Source : Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.178, Random House
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“Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.”
Source : "All Sex, All the Time". www.city-journal.org. Summer 2000. 
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“God is God, He is not tame and domesticated like we sometimes (try to) make Him.”
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“He whipped the chair around and actually split one of the things in half with the impact, spilling the spray of blood that was reflective, like mercury. John bellowed, "Anyone else want to donate blood to chair-ity?" He ducked into the the door and bashed one monster right in the wig, screaming, "There's some dessert! With a chair-y on top!”
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“Was I a perfect gastric-bypass patient? Yes. Was I a perfect gastric-bypass pregnant woman? No. I made a decision to enjoy my pregnancy... So sue me!”
