The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.

Disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion.

Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.

I guess that the salary that they get when they are working with me is, like, it beats working at McDonalds, so it has got some things going for it.

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

I've been living a lie all my life.

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.