The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.

The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

Faith is like a kernel of wheat.

You're not a real Texan till you've been kicked out of every decent state in America.

Man-eaters are finally shot dead.

Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression.

In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.

Luce: You could have kept your promises. Daniel: I promised I'd stay.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right.

I swayed into him, drawn to his obsessive and insatiable raw need for me, which reflected the depth of my need for him

Black, white, yellow, brown - we wanted somebody who would do right by us. And I think because Obama was that person, whether he was black or white, he was chosen