The tea party venerates the Constitution while despising the political system it has produced.

I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US... But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.

While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' - my kids get them all the time - I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

You are the woman of my heart. The one I have been awaiting the whole of my life, though I didn't know it until I spied you. there isn't one thing that makes you special to me, but all things.

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him

I'm gonna give all I've got to giveCross my heart, and I hope to live.