The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.