You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.

I was brought up imagining that cream rises to the top, merit wins out, the race is to the swift and riches to men of understanding, but it ain't necessarily so. The swift stand a better chance if they are also beautiful.

In California virtually everyone has had their teeth whitened. If they all smiled at once, they would give us a headache.

When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.