"Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour."

"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."

"That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance."

"At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame."

"Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America."

"When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs."

"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."

"To question with sincerity is the first step toward dismantling dogma. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."