The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

The major cause of problems are solutions

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

Religion allows people to feel justified in acting out their primal instincts, that is, to assault, destroy, rape, and murder others, who they judge as being different and inferior to themselves.

She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.

I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.

I do feel that whatever happens, it's important to work with great people and do something great. That's how I feel.

I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness.

I'm even afraid to lay down with you at night, because when you go to bed at night, mean woman, you got an ice pick in your hand.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.