It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

It ain’t a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you’re talking about.

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.

RUM, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.

I think my mistakes were kind of common – leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity...

I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.

There’s no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

People are pretty much alike. It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters’ eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won’t...

I hope to be a complement to the guys in the booth, whether it’s in providing an injury update or to further a storyline or whatever.

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.

And I think a good writer’s gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it.

Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Because I was the blonde, I was promoted as the video vixen.

What we’ve seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge… unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent.

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.

It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.

Potentially significant, by the way, because we don’t know exactly what’s in Matt Cooper’s notes, and we don’t know – and we don’t still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was...

As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as...

Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

The real sin with Social Security is that it’s a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven’t been taxed before.

PRESENT, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can’t manage it.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating...

There is never going to be another Ali.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That’s why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of...

One reason I do the live shows – and the monthly speeches at public radio stations – is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in...

You can’t get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it’s a comedy show.

I’m a preacher’s kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone’s always watching.

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

I’ve always been the only girl in those environments. It’s comfortable for me – I prefer it, actually.

The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that’s never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.