Reality hasn't really intervened in my mother's life since the seventies.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

Many women in politics say they had very few, if any, female role models.

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood.

We have to do our jobs better, more tirelessly and stop whining about it.

There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.

If there is only 24 hours to save the universe why are you talking to us?

For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.

Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!

One of the things I've always loved is collecting telling little details.

There is no secret orchard where ideas grow. Oh my, do I wish there were.

I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.

The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.

Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

Anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.

why is the word 'qualified' applied only to those who have to be more so?

There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.

What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.

In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads.

Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

I love commercials. I love to hate commercials, too. I talk back to them.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

When perfect frankness comes in at the door love flies out of the window.

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.

They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.

Not all negativity is bad. In politics, it's a necessary clarifying tool.

Probably like a lot of people, my personal politics are all over the map.

In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.

Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

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