If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.
Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.
It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned.
I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.
If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.
The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.
The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.
There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.
I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
To be a commentator, you must have a life outside cricket, too. If cricket is all that you know, then you would not be a great commentator.
