I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.

I did anything that would get me on the air.

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.

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it… seemed a defeat.

No, I did not offer to resign for a second.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a...

Everybody knows I’m a Democrat.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

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.

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.

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.