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.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed...

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

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

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you’re sorry.

The prime minister found something hopeful in the man’s eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for...

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships...

After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government’s responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is...

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and...

We don’t know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don’t always appreciate their fragility.

The President’s got a lot of things working against him which aren’t necessarily under his control, and I’m not sure he’s familiar with that.

Since I left Sunset Beach, it’s been non-stop. All that growth happened really fast, and at the rate it’s going, I want to stick with it.

We’re starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we’re allowed to.

If your audience is young, it’d be youth culture, if your audience is older, it’d be older people, if it were senior citizens, it’d be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target...

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

The heyday of video music was the mid 80’s.

It isn’t enough for you to love money – it’s also necessary that money should love you.

I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station.