I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.

A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley.

George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon.

These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.

I keep my mouth shut now. I've turned into a professional coward.

Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.