I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era--but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.