Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.
Access to presidential materials should be as wide as possible.
Nowadays, everyone seems to have a blog that finds readers.
I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.
I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.
When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up.'
No biographical subject is ever on hold with the orthodontist. If there's a dry spell, it's your job to curtail or eliminate it.
You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year.
But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out.
Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?
We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.
