Marriage is socialism among two people.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

Remember that we always love and think of you. Always. Mother.

The Christians and the world have totally different goals.

True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.

By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.

The Way that can be walked is not the eternal Way.

God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.

We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like - the anti-war government nig... America was a source for division around the world, that what we were doing was wrong.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.