How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

Cheap booze is a false economy.

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.

th. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

Even though the desire is strong doesn't mean you deserve it.

The safest day at the Melody is St. Paddy's, " adds another Mardi Gras girl. "All the cops are out vomiting at the parade.

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

When you're building a business, you're either all in, or you're not.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.

It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whither we are going, regarding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

Jewelry is fine on some guys, but it's not for me.