If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.

The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.