Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That’s what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

Writing’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

I guess if I’m a product, either you’re chocolate, you’re vanilla or you’re butterscotch. You can’t be all three.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.