It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.

A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams.

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'