One life was never quite enough for what I had in mind.

We know all along that time is squeezing us into a corner while we mentally rocket to each new star that flares across our sky, and yet we can't help ourselves.

There's nothing more unattractive than a man who blames predestination for his own failures and a woman who blames men for her own vulnerability...Blame thyself

The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary.

Sometimes those who start out the slowest end up going the farthest.

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.