Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day.

Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

In this age of 'whatever, ' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris

He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.

Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.

In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.

Enough anecdotes make a pattern.

Politics is always driven by competing worries.

Man made God in his own image...

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.

I need good friends who can say, 'I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you need to change right now.'

I believe people are much more complicated than they can handle.

In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.

It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.

Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.