What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.

Hm. Didn’t you use to be a lot smaller?”“Yes, ” said Jinx. “Because I used to be six.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So I was inheriting in a way some of that ethos.

You can't hold firewalls and intrusion detection systems accountable. You can only hold people accountable.

Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.

I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

Music always just cuts to the core and fills your heart.