Carpe Diem, just remember that we're partying on the Titanic.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

The best way to guard your heart was to trust a good man to take care of it for you.

If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way.

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt the conversation.

Legal immigration is a much tougher group of people to stereotype and to identify as potential new Democrat voters.

I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.