All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

God is the Wonderful Counselor.

That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life.

I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.

What does it mean, being a woman?

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

There is nobody more pro-Israel than I am.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

I aint gotta get a plaque, I aint gotta get awards I just walk up out the door, all the girls will applaud

Mixing is figuring out what is essential to the moment and subordinating everything else