Americans in any century can be too inclined to accept consultant-crafted images of flesh-and-blood people.

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

The public's imagination is rarely captured by bland temperance.

The goal had been important only for the sake of finding the path to it.

For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You’ve done the time but wonder if it’s going to satisfy the judge.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

Summer in the deep South is not only a season, a climate, it's a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either proud or submerged.

I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork.

Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.

You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.

I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart.

Everyone gets drunk and makes out with the wrong guy sometimes.

Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard.