If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life…

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into…

— Christopher Moore

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive…

— Barry Lopez

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

— Barry Lopez

“Now here's the good part. It was the part where Monica told me was the reason her life had seemed to collapse. It was…

— Mira Kirshenbaum

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

— Peter Singer

I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is called Stalking…

— Adam Richman

“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”

— George Will

One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus. I don't…

— Rachel Maddow

“The historical periods I like to learn about aren’t so much costume dramas as slasher flicks. The French Revolution is a favorite because it…

— Sarah Vowell

Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second,…

— Frank Crowninshield

“The line in the sand that Carter drew along Iran’s Zagros Mountains now stretches from Central Asia through the Middle East and across the…

— Andrew J. Bacevich

I'm Mexican-American, but I grew up with a normal American life. I don't have a low rider. I drive a Honda. I guess I…

— Snow Tha Product

As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the…

— George W. Bush

Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in them-more beautiful,…

— Martha Stewart

“As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were…

— James Truslow Adams