Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don’t discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it’s stupid. Banning books shows you don’t trust your kids to think and you don’t trust yourself to be able...

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn’t when I started.

I have lived in the homes of workers; they live on boiled potatoes, black bread with lard spread on it instead of butter, and rotten beer.

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

We’re all controlled neurotics.

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.

However the facts are to be explained, the possibility of the facts I am constrained to admit; there is no further room in my mind for doubt.

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

People that really know me will tell you that I am not a video vixen.

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God’s path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire,...

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn’t know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn’t see how I could write it.

We also quoted Robert Luskin, Rove’s attorney, acknowledging that Rove did speak to Cooper late on the week prior to the article coming out, which would have been July 10 or 11.

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It’s a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

I’m always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn’t be worried about beauty.

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you’d never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages...

One of the advantages of the book’s having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there’s been time for people to report back on what it’s done for them.

So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went...

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

There’s a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.

My approach is a very human one, as a fan.

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

Television’s very dependent on images. That’s not what news is.

If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

We’d all like to vote for the best man but he’s never a candidate.

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

Is not this the true romantic feeling – not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you’re not also against in vitro fertilization.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.