You reveal your own character most clearly when you describe someone else's.
[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.
When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into submission? How about an explanation, Mr Moore?
The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Each painting evolves freely and independently.
Homosexuals are like Judas: They look good in a robe, and their kisses are legendary.
What you need will come to you if you do not ask for what you do not need.