Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.

Yeah, it didn't work like that because lies cannot protect

A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

Jealousy. Depression. Love. They pretty much demonstrate the whole range of human emotion.

Sadly, the American dream is dead.

She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.

Feminism is a way of understanding reality, not just a series of things to do. Feminism challenges our predilection for one right answer, one right God, one size fits all.

On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.