If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being...

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

I have written for years of the Red Army, yet my first living contact with it was with these peasants. They did not understand me.

It’s kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it’s for the lack of a suitable hero.

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn’t fun?

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man – he – himself.

Can’t disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

Even on the greatest teams, there’s always one role player.

I’m comfortable with my femininity, and I don’t try to change what I look like just because I’m reporting on football at the end of the night.

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that,...

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of...

We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N’ Roll Mystery Tour.

Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.

All the world loves a good loser.

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

Well, it is true that they did – the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran...

The outstanding thing about my father to me anyway was just what a good and decent person he was. He was good and decent to everybody.

Most people don’t know who Ken Mehlman is. He’s the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he’s doing that Howard Dean isn’t doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and...

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

This also is a part of the Church’s teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man...

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

I’ve known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.

That’s when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to...

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that’s the news, too.

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don’t ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

The human cost of the war in Iraq is genuinely horrifying, with more than 1,800 of our finest young people making the ultimate sacrifice.

No, one of the great things about my three-year deal is that it’s year-round. They’ve offered me an opportunity to cover a lot of things in the offseason, too.

Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

It’s not a good thing to be friends with people you’re covering. There’s just no point in doing it. It’s tempting, but they’re not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that...

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

I think because we were there when it was a very knew and different form of television, we are forever going to be linked with MTV and video music.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous – and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The...

I’m aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that’s been that...

If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.