...it is impossible to reason people out of affiliations they have not been reasoned into.

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.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

The Veteran's Administration is a disaster, the V.A., it's a disaster.

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.

My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.