The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

You can gerrymander one district, but it's very difficult to gerrymander the whole country.

Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League.

I think constitutional and lawful protest has a very real value.

When President Nixon said that the American people don't want their foreign policy dictated from the street, unfortunately, he said the most clever political statement I think he's ever said.

Only ignorance makes people put up with defeat.

Everyone should be happy... everyone deserves it... When you are happy... it's time your dog to leave you... it's a time when your dogs dies and enters somebody's else life.

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

I consider myself 'local' in Sweden.

I love Tony Jaa. He's one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world.

That no-hitter stuff was a long time ago; I don't think that has anything to do with it. I'm just going through a tough time.

"Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it's like a former love affair you had and you're done.

I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was still my little attempts at being a storyteller.

I love the smell of a woman's armpit when she's not wearing deodorant.

As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.