Loyalty isn't standing by someone when he's right - that's good judgment. Loyalty is standing by someone when he's wrong.

I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.

But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.

Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.

Everybody knows I'm a Democrat.

I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.

One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.

In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.

Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.

I puked rainbows all over my childhood, and it felt so good.

I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

Not only can I not recall my experiences in my previous lives, sometimes I can't even remember what I did yesterday.

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.

Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone.

Where our joy is, there should our work be.