You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.

If an abduction is reported, it is dealt with in the same way as a kidnap.

There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.

George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

There's nothing wrong with being organized.Things that change history tend to be organized.

John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush.

Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command save one has stood with him.

You have to understand that Republicans are on lockstep on one issue. They will not raise taxes. Democrats are in lockstep on another issue, pro-choice in all cases on abortion.

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

I hate when I look in my closet and find clothes instead of Narnia.

Mankind is busily manufacturing its way into extinction.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga -- it will all equal itself out.

It takes most of us a long time to learn our craft. So keep at it. Don't give up.

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.

I became the singer by default. I didn't know if I could do it. We tried other people, but couldn't find anyone we liked.

It seems as though everyone is going to the currency of celebrity. Everyone's getting their own account of whatever that currency is. That's something neat.