There is a moment of sheer panic when I realize that Paul's apartment overlooks the park... and is obviously more expensive than mine.

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

Careful, Sandi. You're about to let your bulldog mouth overload your bird-dog bite.

Peace does not mean an absence of conflict, because opposition, polarity and conflict are natural and universal laws.

No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

faint heart never won fair lady

We look at what we do to determine who we are.

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.