We don't speak of it, or react to it. Paralyzed in a reality of uncertainty and madness, this is where we are.

The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control.

It was Chelsea who captures our plummet before it reaches the deepest parts of our vulnerability.

Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough

The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?

A man with a dream of pleasure can go forth and conquer a crowd and three. With a new song's measure can trample a kingdom down.

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.

...everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge.

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.

I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.

Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.