"If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves."

"It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too."

"In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground."

"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."

"A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure."

"The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires."

"All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."