The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it.

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

Money buys access; access buys influence.

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

A Memory Is Better Than A Phony!

I studied him and realized that madness is the last defence of the mind when it can't hope to reconcile itself with events

Obedience is the key to every door.

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.

Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of characters, full of improbable events, anecdotes, folklore and numbers.

Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company.

We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.