I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.

A toy car is a projection of a real car, made small enough for a child's hand and imagination to grasp. A real car is a projection of a toy car, made large enough for an adult's hand and imagination to grasp.

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

The only definitive test for food allergy is whether a person can consume that food without an adverse reaction.

If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.

Society isnt a simple organism with one nucleus and a fringe of little feet its an infinitely complex living structure and if you try to suppress any part of it by that much and perhaps more you diminish you mutilate the whole.

Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have so to speak pawned a part of their narcissism.

You are more beautiful than you realize, stronger than you know, more powerful than you could imagine.

We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.

I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.

So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you everything makes music if you really want it to

At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand.

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.

Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer.

We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the changes were because of injuries. But that's where I give a lot of credit to the group in terms of being able to maintain things.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

I tend to be a little too old to feel guilty about watching anything. Like, I watch 'Survivor' every week.