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 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 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 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.

Over the years, we met every kind of person imaginable. But no one makes worse first impressions than writers.

Who the hell cares about what anybody else thinks? Just look into your heart and do whatever the hell makes you happy.

My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are.

Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him.

An action of God may be the only thing that can save the Church today.

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the s*** knocked out of me