He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it.

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.

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

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!

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.

a life without dreams, is like a bird without wings

Rebecka laughs through her tears. There is almost too much laughter. It bubbles over because she has cried so much she has created an empty space, ready to be filled with another feeling.

I've only ever wanted to be a singer I never wanted to be famous.

I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn't have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.

It's called 'falling in love' for a reason: it does not have to be forced and cannot be planned. It just happens naturally, and if you're lucky, it takes you by surprise.

People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.

You can be! You can have! You can do whatever you want! But you're going to have to free yourself!

Those who vote for the ANC will be blessed on earth and heaven

Greatness can’t be imposed; it has to come from within. But it does live within all of us.

It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process.