The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Many people see a brick wall as an obstacle, when it's really a how to for success. You build both, one brick at a time.

This has always bothered me. If "Change" is the only constant how can we have absolutes?

You gotta have a body.

Hello, Gallagher Girl --Zack

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue to compel students to try to pass them?

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal.