“Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.”

“Got to kick at the darkness 'till it bleeds daylight”

“All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.”

“Journalists are notoriously prone to exaggerate the beneficial impact of elections and to ignore more complex developments.”

“Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.”

“The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition”

“The digital revolution reduces everybody to the state of musicians.”