If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration and diversity and change. It's impossible to have vision in art or government without risk, or the boldness and courage which produce risk. And this - in spite of what they call modern Republicanism - is the antithesis of true Republican thinking.

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.