We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.