I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus.

The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.

The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.

I can't stop once I've started.... it stings!

There's people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of why some ideas about how civilizations work catch on and others don't.

At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.

Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him.

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.