"Arab nation, Egypt, is not mentioned [in the Muslim Ban]? This is where facts are optional for the liberal media."

“Never be less interesting than your refrigerator magnets.”

“Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.”

“Slashing its way to the finish line, Black Swan is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.”

Source : "Swan Down: James Wolcott's Review". "Opera Chic" blog, December 06, 2010.

“It's important for me to have my family close.”

“There aren't going to be many easy nights at all. There are going to be a lot of people beating up on each other. The pitching of the White Sox and Twins is exceptional.”

“When Mutti and Vati came in I didn't speak to them. I just unfurled the CAT MOLESTERS banner I had made.”

“The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.”

“You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.”