America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamourous reasonable voice.

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.I guess that's what turning eighteen means.Time to own it.

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

When more and more people are thrown out of work unemployment results.

It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies.

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

I can let my true self shine in front of God.