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.

Winter: It's not just a season, it's who we are.

The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.

Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.

You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog.