Realism can break a writer's heart.

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail.

Are you willing to care enough to get hurt?

It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?

...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...

[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it.

Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty.

A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.

Everything I did, I did for mankind.

I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life.

Governance is everything. Without governance we have nothing