Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed

My father was not a political animal.

I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

I'm not anti-immigration.

Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

Music is the emotions that words can not express.

Townsend shrugged. 'With all due respect to the good doctor, I highly suspect he's a moron.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.

Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.