If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Statistics are the heart of democracy.

The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

If you neglected to warn Djetth beforehand that you were going to shoot him down, Your Highness, he may consider you in breach of contract...

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.

Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time.

Had my first son this morning... well, actually, my wife had him. I just caught him. Wo. Heart expanding way faster than my brain...

My parents were not theatrical at all.

Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.

Our chances are always pretty good

If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.

We don't have all the answers. Perhaps prayer is simply a time we set aside to acknowledge that reality.