For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks – not that you won or lost – But how you played the game.

If you’re a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

If men can run the world, why can’t they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America’s addiction to oil. You make the connection.

Finding balance in the biggest challenge.

Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

And I got out, and it was during the time of the Vietnam war, and I was going to be drafted, so I joined to go to journalism school.

Facts do not speak.

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

Sports don’t define us; it is not what we live for.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

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

I don’t doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.

Who can resist tabloid TV? You know them, shows consisting of celebrities, drugs, politicians, and, of course, we can’t forget sex.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

There are a lot of guys on both campaigns, on all the campaigns now, who do some very questionable lobbying on behalf of very questionable interests and do things that trouble me a whole lot...

Well, we can’t afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron – namely, that he is a blockhead.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they’re called Republicans.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950’s when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.

I’d watch my father get up at 5 o’clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on...

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

It’s not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he’s fun to read out loud.

I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn’t know anything about the Clintons. I don’t know more about the Clintons’ marriage than you do.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.

I’ve always been around dudes and sports.

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality – not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate – is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

So you shouldn’t really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don’t. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.

Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged.

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people’s stories.

If there’s anything a public servant hates to do it’s something for the public.

Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.

Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality...

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that’s how it turned out.

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

There was no one around me who didn’t work hard.