Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

Espionage for the most part involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

Secretly I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix but I could never quite pull it off.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home at least I'll have a window with a view.

Secretly I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.

By a continuing process of inflation government can confiscate secretly and unobserved an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

To cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person and cut across the accidents of place and time.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground secretly making the ground green.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.