It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.
I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.
I'd like 'Morning News' to become a great first edition electronic newspaper, so that the 'New York Times' will want to watch us.
Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Edie Sedgwick, Debbie Harry, Chloe Sevigny, Michelle Obama, and my friend Eugenie Niarchos each have their own great sense of style.
Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.
I've built my career on unpaid interns, and the interns told me it was great - I learned more from you than I did in college.
Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.
The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?
My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
