I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year.

You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.

[On George H.W. Bush vs. Michael Dukakis:] Americans now know they can vote for a man who can't express his thoughts or a man who can't express his feelings.

If there is a secret to writing, I haven’t found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear your mind, and hang in there.

Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.