Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.

I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally.

The past is recorded almost exclusively in the voices of elites and males, in the viewpoints of the wealthy and the powerful, in the visions of the literate and the educated.

The man and husband of the household is responsible for the way your family’s income is managed.

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

Most people who have a problem concentrate on the problem. They take it to bed with them and stay awake all night thinking it over. Let go of that problem. Rise above it in consciousness.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!

Children are the world's most valuable resource.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

I close my eyes while driving and just sing along. I always open them again in time.

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.