It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.

The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.

I believe our country is strong enough to be criticized.

Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.

Once an innovation is implemented it is no longer innovative.

I look at the universe and I know there's an architect.

You know how sometimes you meet someone and you feel like you've known them your whole life?Well, I feel like I've loved you my whole life.

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.

The questions people have are sometimes soulful, sometimes zany, sometimes incoherent. I want to make a 'zine with just the questions I get emailed to me.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that's what mothers did.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.