The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him.

With the coming of television, and the knowledge of how it could be used to seduce voters, the old political values disappeared. Something new, murky, undefined started to rise from the mists.

Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.

We forgave, followed and accepted because we liked the way he looked. And he had a pretty wife. Camelot was fun, even for the peasants, as long as it was televised to their huts.

Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.

The soul's hands carry the heart's burdens.

These children had never looked death in the face and then chosen to live anyway.

I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being on a page.

Simplicity is complexity resolved

I don't think things like trust should just be handed out. You have to earn that.

Live up to other people's best attributes, not down to their worst.

You should only be in a relationship if it adds to your life.

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics.

Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?" -Frizz mizuno