There are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong...

No matter what else they’re doing, women are also always nurturing.

So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I’d get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do...

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people’s lives and how happy they are.

You’d think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

I’m always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

It’s been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.

Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting.

My mom died when I was 8.

WHATEVER Life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative...

I know what the structure of the language is.

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.

I have two syndicated radio shows though United Stations Radio Network.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

On Wall Street he and a few others – how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that… Masters of the Universe.

My father didn’t know George W. Bush from Adam.

George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.

Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which...

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he...

Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

Towards four o’clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter...

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this...

Tony Blair – good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country.

And Rita Hayworth, who I think was just the ultimate glamorous Hollywood movie star. She’s my favorite. I have her movie posters and photos of her.

You just have to hope that they’ll grant you an interview.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

He wasn’t sure exactly which day, but what’s noteworthy about that is that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14.

At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.

The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of...

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

This also is a part of the Church’s teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being...

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

I have written for years of the Red Army, yet my first living contact with it was with these peasants. They did not understand me.

It’s kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it’s for the lack of a suitable hero.