There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.

I cant summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tatis Play Time. You just have to see it.

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon

Just because it is night now it doesn't mean that there is no morning. Just hope for the best and be patient.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

So I just came out here to Los Angeles with a bunch of buddies I had gone to film school with. You know, for better or worse, we just tried to slug it out here.

To be bored to death is a form of suicide.

Your employee should have superior technical skills than you. If he doesn't, it means you have hired the wrong person.

Clean and restock your car at the end of each trip. No matter how tired you are, resist the temptation to let that empty muffin bag wait until mañana. Tomorrow turns into next week, next month.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.