America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go...

But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far...

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as “steroids.”

Tony Blair barely escaped this year, and now George W. Bush, if elections were to be held today, would be in a serious challenge as well.

And that Michael Irvin would care more about his wardrobe than I would?

You mean the fact that Tom Arnold would spend more time with the hair and makeup people than I would?

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it’s often the style of the writer comes in.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work is the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

Under Ronald Reagan – who cut the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent – black income, business development and business growth exploded.

Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I’m asking for a couple of strokes.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what’s going to be will be postponed.

I didn’t write. I just wandered about.

I think the bottom line for me and for Newsweek is that there were a lot of – we did retract this specific matter about the Koran and the toilet for the reasons that you...

If a man has talent and can’t use it, he’s failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a...

Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor – providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one’s voice.

Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

We’ve got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it’s not surprising airline stocks are going up.

I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject...

My writing improved the more I wrote – and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you’re being sincere all the time.

Affirmative action was never a very elegant solution to the problem of racial injustice.

Did I say that the President’s entire job is image management? Of course not.

I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.

I’m looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.

Mediums have perhaps but little conscious information to give us concerning their powers; we must learn from what they do, not from what they say.

I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the ’60s.

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

Absolute 80’s is three hours of mainstream 80’s music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70’s to the 90’s.

Listening is the only way to entertain some folks.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they...

You know, this is – one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all –...

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

People don’t vote for vice president, they vote for president.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.