"A Total Woman caters to her man's special quirks, whether it be in salads, sex, or sports."

“It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.”

“As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.”

“I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, 'This has all gotta be important!' I would just underline the whole thing!”

Source : Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. January 2, 2008.

“From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.”

“Surely as cometh the Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow.”

Source : Robert Henry Newell (1871). “Versatilities”, p.16

“My mom missed meals on several occasions because there was only enough food to feed all of us. My mom didn't have a bed until I was 15 years old. She slept on a couch...I remember laying with her, like I used to sleep with my mom until I was like 12. I was a big baby; I'm a momma's boy. But my mom is my best friend, and never let me down, ever.”

“This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.”

Source : "Dee Dee Myers : Press Secretary to an Administration Full of Talkers". Interview with Thomas B. Rosenstiel, articles.latimes.com. March 20, 1994.

“How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - thats not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.”

Source : "Sheldon Whitehouse: God Won’t Save Us From Climate Catastrophe" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.