Television was suppressing their freedom not to know.

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

Politics is motion." John Sears

What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises.

An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.

He talks to people's grievances, but he doesn't seem mad. – Elizabeth Drew

Now even reformers needed political machines.

To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed.

Do what you are doing. Monastic motto

You are who you are what you say you are to people, but who are you when no one is watching?

I'm the only kid in the world who doesn't want an eighth Harry Potter book.

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

If I improve just a little bit every day, I'm a happier person

Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed.

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

The most eloquent seems to stutter.

The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.

I hate nostalgia. Today is always better than yesterday.