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The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.
There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.
Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.
For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die
Republicans like Trent Lott, saying [Donald] Trump would be more flexible [then Ted Cruz].
We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.
Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children
The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection.
I admire people who are completely at ease with themselves. But I don't have that feeling.
I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.
The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.
Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.
The only single guy driving a minivan is a guy whose mother bought the van 16 years ago...
All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small.
I said that one can't stereotype [Donald] Trump voters anymore than they can anybody else.
If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.
The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us
Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.
The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.
The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism.
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome.
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
I wish the dashboard indicators for lights were standardized throughout the auto industry.
We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.
My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.
You don't even have to be a lawyer to be on the Supreme Court, which I think is hilarious.
If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.
Every time I give an interview, I seem to offend somebody in my family, usually my mother.
I'm unhappy. I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over
The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.
The best approach to sex for girls is, quote,'lying on your back and thinking of England.'
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."
Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.
There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.
Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.