"In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case."

“Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they do not let their colleagues do 'their thing'; they make sure that everybody does the 'paper's thing.' A good, let alone a great editor is an obsessive autocrat with a whim of iron, who rewrites and rewrites, cuts and slashes, until every piece is exactly the way he thinks it should have been done.”

“And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market”

“I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring.”

Source : "Rob Portman said to be on short list for Romney vice president" by Michael Leahy, www.politico.com. May 23, 2012.

“Most people think of themselves as individuals, that there's no one on the planet like them. This thought motivates them to get out of bed, eat food and walk around like nothing's wrong. My name is Oliver Tate.”

Source : "Submarine". www.wuwm.com. September 12, 2010.

“Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.”

Source : 1977 On conviction after the Watergate scandal. In Newsweek, 4 Jul.

“This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.”

“Honestly, Battlestar is a truly unique thing, and its hard for anything to step up to that. There arent often shows that are as good as that.”

“I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.”