Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself..

There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which yo….

Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's readiness to turn a….

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another..

As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery..

I've always felt that my relationship to the United States is analogous to a marriage. I love this country. I hate it. I get angry at it. I feel clos….

I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I have tonight. For the moment, then, let….

Sex is not only a divine and beautiful activity; it's a murderous activity. People kill each other in bed. Some of the greatest crimes ever committed….

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the exp….

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling..

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance..

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken..

The essence of spirit ... was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was p….

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost..

The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another..

Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart.

There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day..

I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation..

To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above yo….

If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve..

We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out..