No moral value is greater than humanity.

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.

I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.

I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.