Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return.

Man's meanness is a fuse in search of a flame.

You just know something is amiss, when you look at someone and long for something that is not yours or you cannot have. It's an absence--a loss of a heartbeat.

Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.

Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.

The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.

There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.

Living in L.A., I was embarrassed to say that I wanted to be an actor.

I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.