The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

I am lovable in endless ways. I look myself straight in the eye with love and acceptance.

[The] public path of life Is dirty.

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything.

A nation that kills its own children has no future.

Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.

I'm in the business of value judgments .