It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency conducted by ... a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years.

Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.

Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.