The first Romanov ruler was just 16 when he was crowned Tsar Michael I in Moscow in 1613, thus ending the 'Time of Troubles' sparked by Ivan the Terrible's death.
Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.
Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.
I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He's just timeless!
A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
Ted Cruz is a patriot. He believes in what he does. He's done marvels in mobilizing conservatives, mobilizing Americans concerned about the direction of the ever-expanding entitlement state under Obama, and particularly the threat it is to freedom. I disagree with his tactics, but I agree entirely with his objectives.
He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.
He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Cub Swanson's a guy you either get through or you don't, and I fought him when he was on a nice winning streak.
Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.
'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day; he's so brilliant. He's such a brilliant actor, just unbelievable.
Mitt Romney is a Mormon, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Even though he talks about Jesus as his Lord and savior, he is not a Christian. Mormonism is not Christianity. Mormonism is a cult.
I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others.
Bill Cunningham... he knows fashion better than anybody.
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
