Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.

He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.

He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.

She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.

The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.

...I might mention my belief that girls who like Woody Allen movies are nicer girls than girls who don't...

...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and boughr jewelry.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.

If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting

People like being alike, joining up, and being part of something.

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

The night is my companion, and solitude my guide.

Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.