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

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.

I’m sure not afraid of success and I’ve learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I’m afraid of now is of being someone I don’t like much.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It’s the ones that become the friendships that last.

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he’s done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think...

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom’s apple pie.

The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

The new national campfire – radio.

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of...

I know I’ll be under a spotlight, I know I’ll be under the microscope.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like...

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.

Yeah, see, my view of Jordan is that he doesn’t belong to Washington.

Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it’s by applause.

The French Forces of the Interior, who have scarcely enough to help themselves, try to help their wounded Spanish comrades in arms.

Some of the best stories that I’ve gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources.

It was a fun ride. I’ve enjoyed my time on the ice and I’ve enjoyed more and more people getting interested in the game of hockey.

Gore’s problem is that the issues are all on his side.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn’t make you less of what you were. You are still you.

So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn’t Die. I don’t know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many,...

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you’re tired of hearing about us, you should try being one...

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

Now and then some Party member would announce a study circle, and I would join it, along with some ten or twelve working men and women.

Today, it’s money. There’s no question about that. Unless you endorse a grill that cooks hamburgers and steaks, where else can you make the kind of money that you can make in the ring if...

My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than...

If your religion doesn’t teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

We’re Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics… who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.

If it were the Clinton people, they’d be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is...

For many celebrities, securing the public’s votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.

In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

Some of the most important stories don’t lend themselves to television treatment.

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?

I do get a big kick out of radio though.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he’s overcharging you.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and ’80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

We are now in the Me Decade – seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

When you’re standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in...

Genealogy, n. An account of one’s descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.