Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.

People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.

He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.

I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts.

Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.

A tiny detail can make you feel completely different. I feel different if I wear something that I'm slightly uncomfortable in.

I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.