Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized.

There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.

Democracy is not something we have. It's something we do.

Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.

I'm not against the corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws.

Most often a country is poor when its educational system is poor and individuals do not strive to become educated.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.