When the evidence for and against "democracy being the finest system of government yet invented" is weighed, George W Bush is going to tip the scales very heavily against.

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

Reese Witherspoon is my everywoman. She's managed to have a family and this amazing career. That's the goal.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it

One market paradigm that I take exception to is: Buy low and sell high. I believe far more money is made by buying high and selling at even higher prices.

Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.

Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.