A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be
Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
Even when I cannot see him, I can hear the beautiful gallop of God's heartbeat for humanity.
Just because I am increasingly bored by sabermetric arcana doesn't mean anyone else has to be; it remains good for people who like that sort of thing.
Try not to be four years into a relationship when it suddenly dawns on you that the guy you're with is a big, selfish jerk.
I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.