Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Killing is the payoff of war.

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

...one of the best ways to take the pain out of past experiences is to replace the hurt with gratitude.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

The secret is to always let the other man have your way.

For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.

Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.