A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.

America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.

Kids are disorganized.

Politics is the one field you don't age out of.

The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.

There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.

All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.

I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.

I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.

On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.

Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

More modern poetry is written than read.

In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.

Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.

When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.

I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.

I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.

Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.

America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.

Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease.

What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.

I don't understand anything about America's culture.

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

Regulation creates a moral hazard.

The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.

Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.

A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.

TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.

A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person.

If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.

We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.

You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.

Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.

War diminishes both civil and economic rights.

Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.

America is a meritocracy.

Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.

When you are injured, you need to strengthen yourself very well to make a comeback very confidently.

Fitness is the key. You need to have strokes and stamina and agility; you need to exercise really well. On-court and off-court are equally important.

There will be many obstacles in the pursuit of your dreams. I had long hours of training, balancing studies and badminton.

I have learnt many things, but there's more to learn. Every day is a new start.

If it makes me happy, it definitely adds to my well-being.

The key is not being overconfident. You should not think that because I'm a top-ranked player, I will win this game. You have to be focused.

Hard work is the key for success.

I went to school like any other regular student till Class VIII, and my favourite subject was math. From Class IX, things got a little difficult to manage. I was inclined towards studies, but then I also had to give time to badminton.

You win some and lose some. It's all part of the game. You have to take it in a very positive way.

Win or lose, I always focus only on giving my 100%.