I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

Why is man obliged to learn ignorance?

The earth is buzzing with metaphor

Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

Horses and life, it's all the same to me.

Use plants to bring life

African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.

I'm sure thousands of people in the world are taking on twice what I am attempting. I'm really looking forward to it all.