Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Killing is the payoff of war.

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

To feel loved again feels good, but to know they don't love you make things worse.

Be careful when building walls to protect yourself. Those same walls may cage you in.

I don't like it when people say, 'You're 45, so you should be wearing X and never Y.' For me, dressing is about attitude, not age.

See, you know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to hold the reservation and that's really the most important part of the reservation, the holding. Anybody can just take them.

Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of horror stories about what you feel like on the inside.

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.