After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.

[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political reform, electoral reform need more discussion than they get.

I think the media has to continually remind itself, and I think we do but sometimes not well enough that we're not just an economic property.

I wanted us to be careful about, going to the corner diner, interviewing three people and saying, "here's the mood of the public."

Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it.

Thin people, God bless them, God curse them, don't get it: If you're not thin, you need to be careful and conscious about when and how you suitors initially see you.

Who we were shapes us into who we are, and who we are shapes us into who we’ll become.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Never underestimate the gullibility of large pools of money.

Paralympics... fascinating because just watching anyone with a major disability trying to do everyday chores is fun to watch.

There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as [Buckminster Fuller] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or that aspect of nature.

Attain deliverance in disturbances.

I'm enjoying my retirement, enjoying my life. I have two kids and a lot of my time is spent chasing these two animals.

Pray, hope and don't worry. Anxiety doesn't help at all. Our Merciful Lord will listen to your prayer.

Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.

The climate is obviously changing dramatically.