I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.

Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

The greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant to be a jazzy people who talk big and jump on the table and dance; we aren't supposed to be dopey and glum and brood over old injuries.

I don't want them to be told to remember me.

In the end, all solutions are temporary.