I think the media has to continually remind itself, and I think we do but sometimes not well enough that we're not just an economic property.

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.

[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political reform, electoral reform need more discussion than they get.

I wanted us to be careful about, going to the corner diner, interviewing three people and saying, "here's the mood of the public."

Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it.

Thin people, God bless them, God curse them, don't get it: If you're not thin, you need to be careful and conscious about when and how you suitors initially see you.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

My goal is to do something outrageous every day.

Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.

I am a vampire," I say softly. "And you have pissed me off.

One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.

Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

The best of life is always ahead, always further along.