A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir.

We think we can't survive without deficit spending - but we soon won't be able to survive with deficit spending, either.

The closer one gets to elections or wars, the further one gets from the truth.

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.

The fact is that we do pay attention. I think that it's unfortunately the case, whether you're a man or woman and you're running for president you need to look as good as you can look.

To see the first sun rise in New Year is the most sacredness of existence.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

"One impulse from a vernal wood