It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.

When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author, countless Americans harassed by a government that wages spurious wars against drugs and terrorism.

Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were not-imaginative , tolerant, alert to wonders, life.