St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Jean de La Fontaine

I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

Milan Kundera

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Jackie Collins

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

Russell Hoban

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H. L. Mencken

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.

Bernard Crick

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

Donald Trump

You can never trust what you read.

William Goldman

He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.

Benjamin Franklin

Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.

Yasunari Kawabata

I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

Ridley Scott

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin