There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

In the professional world of leadership ambition and potential are the most excessive commodities.

I'm just helping someone who is unfortunate. Is that a crime?

Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.

We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist.

I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

If you have no more happiness to give: Give me your pain.

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey.