In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.
Beaten paths are for beaten men.
And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life.
The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.
The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.
We cannot do everything, but we can all do something.
Our health-care issues is another big structural drag. All of these need to be dealt with if we're going to keep the American economy the most dynamic and flexible in the world.
Sex is probably the most fun you can have in life without gaining weight or having a hangover the next day.
Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon. ' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park. ' It's wonderful.