If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.

People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener.... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.

Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

In your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love.

Lips are the fingerprints of love.

...how impossible itis to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option youcouldn’t even imagine.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

CIA Director George Tenet has now testified before the 9/11 commission and he said we are still making the same dumb mistakes, like leaving memos on the President's desk.

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

There are so many elements and nuances from the books that are very hard to tell in the length of a movie.

Voters, I think, in many ways, have begun to really reject the system.

How can you run for president if you dont know the job description?

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.