and we laugh and laugh andall I know isat this moment I feel likeI can do anything I wantand be anyone I wantand go anywhere on the globeand still call it home

I realize the thing about a guy you've spent your whole life loving from afar is that even though he's real you've really made most of him up.

The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.

I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week.

Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama.

Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away.

My job is to say, 'This is how I see the world. Do you agree?'

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.

I almost exclusively wear skinny jeans. I'm terrified of any other cut of denim.

And the other issue is Gore, $4.6 trillion - the single largest expansion of government in American history, from universal preschool, now, to prescriptions to health care - it is Socialism 101.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.