I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

The Canadian middle class is under less pressure than any other middle class in any developed country on the planet. So they feel good. They feel optimistic. They feel secure.

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy.

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.

There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.

We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.

Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.

If we want great things to happen then we must create space in our lives for what we desire.

The idea economy is a conversation. Try to channel or control that conversation and you will stop the chatter.

We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

We artists are a different breed of people. We're a happy bunch.

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

Marriages struggle because we've set our marriages up to fail by thinking that this person is going to complete me when they were never created to do that.

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.