Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.

[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.

After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political reform, electoral reform need more discussion than they get.

I think the media has to continually remind itself, and I think we do but sometimes not well enough that we're not just an economic property.

I wanted us to be careful about, going to the corner diner, interviewing three people and saying, "here's the mood of the public."

Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it.

Thin people, God bless them, God curse them, don't get it: If you're not thin, you need to be careful and conscious about when and how you suitors initially see you.

Life is worthwhile when you walk on a path aligned to your purpose.

I had no vote in the making of such a law, and I have no intention of abiding by it, either.

There is nothing quite so beautiful as the written word -worn as a jewel, adorning the segmented lines of papyrus".

We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.

Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.

We don't destroy our heroes today when we worshipped them yesterday.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

Even [Donald Trump] presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy.

Time goes on even when we do not.