The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.

If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News has, we'd all be speaking Cokelish today.

From the moment America went full-on industrial, it seems like it's been a steady path towards people never having to be physically present in order to satisfy their needs.

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.

Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.

A product is usually created to improve people's lives; otherwise, why buy it? I'm no genius, but I am an American, and gosh-darnit, I consume, so I know what I'm talking about.

Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.

I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success.

The right-wing just loves making a big entrance.

And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.

Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

A better you means a better universe.

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.