Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.

Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.

A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.

I often work seven days a week. I'm not looking for a pat on the back because I love what I do.

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.

Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset.

My career wouldn't exist without blogs, electronic text, hyperlinks, and mass online audiences.

Vogue is not a practical magazine, it provides sensations, feeling, moods, you like the photos.

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

Johnny Hart became much less funny after he found sobriety, and religion, around the same time.

A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.

I am full of the milk of human kindness, damn it. My trouble is that it gets clotted so easily.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.

I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me.

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.

We used to say in the black community that if somebody else caught a cold, we caught pneumonia.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.

As far as my personal nostalgia zone goes, I find I watch more of AntennaTV than anything else.

The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone.

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

To count as transformative, a president needs to synthesize the moment and mood of the country.

I think part of the reason anyone goes into journalism is to get a response to what they write.

What would McCarthy, what would Nixon, what would Bill Clinton have done if they'd had Twitter?

Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

If you say no to cruel factory farm practices, only then will the government say yes to change.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Politicians attend dinners at hotels with contractors. Bankers discuss interest rates at lunch.

The financial people, who lead such dreary lives, believe what they read and see on television.

Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.

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