I think fully, that an independent candidate can't win in this country. The Constitution is structured for basically a two-party government, a two-party race.
The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.
Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.
The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.
The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.
I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.
Don't follow your feeling. Just follow the word.
The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.
I don't wear makeup. I don't wash my hair every day. It's not something that I associate with myself.