The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.

He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.

He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Gullibility is a knife at the throat of civilization.

If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do.

How can I lose? I've already offended everybody!

Even the continents drift.

What I'm really focused on is the majesty of the best films I see are films that don't panhandle for an extra laugh later, but actually deliver the goods. And when the screen goes black, you go, Yes.

You can't really be too calculated about everything in life.

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Once people start throwing wet stuff, I go inside.