“This is a person I’ve never seen before. So I didn’t want to be seeing her for the first time dead in a casket. I didn’t want to see that. I wanted the first time I was seeing her to be the first time I see her. In the kingdom of heaven.”

Manti Te’o explains the infamous girlfriend hoax.

“In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”

The Invincible Margaret Thatcher

“Love is just like a faucet, it turns off and on.”

Billie Holiday 

“Well, I’m still in New York. Thank you, God.”
Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch takes the Proust Questionnaire.
Illustration by Risko
“Those who do nothing are inviting shame, as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right, as well as reality.”

—John F. Kennedy

Todd S. Purdum on Obama’s Birmingham Moment in the Aftermath of Newtown.

“Nothing risqué, nothing gained.”

Alexander Woollcott