America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.

It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

Baby, In your eyes Sweet memories of the good times we had

Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.

The friend that always finds time to spend with you without consulting his or her calendar is a true friend.

Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

There is no room for being creative in today’s business... Except for finding creative ways to be inefficient.

Food is my friend and consistency is the key.

I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one.

Let us respect even error when it has its source in virtue.