If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Don't settle for ordinary. Dare to live a magical life.

If bread - the staff of life - feeds the body

Write what you want, everything else is gravy

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

I've got 11 brothers and sisters.

A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.

Only humility will lead us to unity, and unity will lead to peace.

Love, because when you love, you are using the greatest power in the Universe.

The National Rifle Association is a domestic terrorist organization that tacitly supports the killing of children more than it supports reasoned gun legislation.

I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our 'Bartlett's.'