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• Never ... know a public man well enough that he inhibits you from writing about him frankly and fully while he's living his public life.
  -- Alistair Cooke...
• I remember once being on a station platform in Cleveland at four in the morning.
  A black porter was carrying my bags, and as we were waiting for the train to come in, he said to me...
• And what is the professional wizard's greatest reward for completing a particularly arduous and dangerous task?
  Is it the accolades of a grateful populace? Is it huge amounts of gold and silver tossed about his feet?...
• Man is a thinking being, whether he will or no; all he can do is to turn his thoughts the best way.
  -- Sir W. Temple...
• Let me tell you who the actual "front-runners" are.
  On one side, you have George Bush, who is currently going through a sort of fraternity hazing wherein he has to perform a series of humiliating stunts to win the approval of the Republican Right....
• When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best. -- Edward Abbey
• Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls ... In our house, we have Alka-Seltzer on tap.
  If you cook like I do, the best thing I can tell you is not to be sensitive....
• The time was the 19th of May, 1780. The place was Hartford, Connecticut.
  The day has gone down in New England history as a terrible foretaste of Judgement Day....
• What do you take me for, an idiot?
  -- General Charles de Gaulle, when a journalist asked him if he was happy...