If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

When everyone in America knows you're in a dreadful position, admit you're in a dreadful position. Don't lie about it and make them roll their eyes, tell the truth and make them blink.

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.

Ted Sorrenson, JFK's presidential speech writer, when asked how it came about that he wrote the "ask not what you can do..." speech, he would answer 'ask not.'

The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.

The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.