[Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing.

One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured.

Democrats, you know, want to identify with and relate to what you're feeling, what you've been bummed out about, where your head is at.

I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.

You mean in the state?

Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.

At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.

Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.

Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.

[The American people] would rather invest in themselves than listen to a bunch of people in Washington who do not have a record of fixing anything.