Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.

a city square that's designed on a scale to express national greatness is hostile to the human intimacy necessary for freedom's space [George Packer, "History: Influence on Humanity"].

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

I was often asked how one could even make sense of this. Isn't the category of knowledge something that we project upon the world, rather than something that we discover in it?

The guy stroked his goatee. "What do you call twenty guys watching the world series?" "The New York Yankees," Butch replied.

I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.

Congress is back in season.

Miracles and magic pervade the things that I've written, but yet there are no miracles and there is no magic.

A fatal recovery from a promising illness

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.