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Pablo Picasso first entered my consciousness when I was a boy of about eight years old.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.
It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.
Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.
Calvin Coolidge was one of the best presidents. Why? Because he did absolutely nothing.
The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
I actually started my career interning at Perry Ellis and got to work with Marc Jacobs.
Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.
If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.
A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.
We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century
Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
You show you care, you die.You show you fear, you die.You show nothing, maybe you live.
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere, without moving anything but your heart.
Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.
Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.
If your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately.
If the girls keep dancing, everybody's happy. If the girls don't dance, nobody's happy.
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work
If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.
But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.
Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.
It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.
I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.
American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.
I much prefer writing fiction. History books, for me, are very hard work, very serious.
If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I'm in love with several people.
What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.
There is something inherently foolish in soldiering on when there is no hope of payoff.
The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'
Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.
When would he realize that it wasn't his infidelity I couldn't bear, but his cowardice?
Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.
If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.
Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.
The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.
Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.
I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.