Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

I bought my wife a little Italian car. A Mafia. It has a hood under the hood.

Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock 'n' roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screaming into the microphone, "Go! Go! Go for the burn!"

She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.

That is how the atom is split. But what does it mean ? To us who think in terms of practical use it means - Nothing !

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.

If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?