A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.

Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.

In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life - one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.

In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That's why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.

We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.