Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.

Oh darling, your only too wild, to those whom are to tame, don't let opinions change you.

Hey, size works against excellence.

I'm a strategic guy. I'm gonna figure out ways to hurt the defense, but it's not gonna be about throwing a ball through a wall.

but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.

The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words.

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.

Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.