An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper.

I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty.

A writer must be willing to leave oneself behind in order to explore new territories of the mind and unearth primordial truths that startle and frighten us.

Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.

The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility - all make for a one-in-a-billion individual.

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.

If you've been given opportunities then you have to create opportunities. If you're given knowledge by people, share your knowledge. If you were born with talent, show your talent off.

It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good.

It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.

I think we can all agree this is a very important election [2016]. We don't want to see Hillary Clinton become the president of the United States.