There's a very healthy tradition in America of skepticism of centralized power. If we ever lose the skepticism of centralized power, we'll lose the essence of the country.

It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility.

Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force.

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.

When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.

The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

Do you see Jesus Christ as the son of God and believe in him as the route to salvation and eternal life?

We have had too much of the Clintons, too much of the establishment, too much of Bushes. We have had too much of the old names and the old theories. It's time for a new theory.

If you look at the top ten most reliable cars, as reported by thousands of people in all kinds of independent testing, there's only one American car in the top ten. It's the Buick.

Listen with your eyes as well as your ears.

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.

I don't believe people should to be able to own guns.

Like the tiny spark of fire that consumes a forest, the spark of love is all you need to experience love in its full power and glory, in all its aspects, earthly and divine.

I think too much importance is placed on spirit guides. They involve looking outside of ourselves to do it, to fix it, to tell us what to do.

If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing.

We can only conceive of changing the self-reflection in response to our concept of self-reflection, which is predicated on our concept of self, which is a self-reflection.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.