A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.

L'honneste est stable et permanent.

Contemporary feminism is enamored with consumer choice and has fully accepted it as a substitute for freedom.

They all have always loved you, Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however hard you try.

I started coming to L.A. as often as I could, for three months on and three months off, because immigration kicks you out after 90 days.

It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs.

I'm out to take the Bible, create disciples who make disciples, disciple cycles.

I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)

so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.

Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.