A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [ , Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]
The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.
CBS's Ed Murrow may have been over-celebrated as the principled observer for the masses, fair yet unafraid to take on the bullies.
Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.
This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.
Words to invoke peace & awareness. Words to create freedom and fairness. Words to plant sacred seeds. and sing us back into balance.
I think we need to have competitive tax rates in order to create jobs in this country. And I think it should be fair.
I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!
When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out.
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
Mitt Romney, you can criticize him for a lot of things, and that's fair, but he knows how the economy works.
It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'
I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.
If someone tells you something is off the record, I don't print it. If they don't tell me something is off the record, then it's fair game.
On Anzac Day, coffee and jokes with a Turk might be the most meaningful and fair dinkum dawn service you could possibly have.
Life is not fair; you do what it takes and at the end, you are the only person going home with empty hands.
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.
The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine.
By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie.
I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.
In a fair and just society you can't create laws based on how you feel at the worst moment in your life.
