Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.

A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

The towering genius is not apolitical.

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.

Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.

To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

Je pensais de meme que notre jeunesse etait finie et le bonheur manqué. I thought too that our youth was over and we had failed to find happiness.

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story.

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

The history of fiat money is little more than a register of monetary follies and inflations. Our present age merely affords another entry in this dismal register.

I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.

And I'm proud of what I do as a professional, too.

I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.

W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.