“People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.”

People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.

Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.

If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.

There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.

No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.

The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.

Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.

Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.

We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.

There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.

Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.

I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.

A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes.

Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.

I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.

Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe…

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves

Time is our present breath.

We can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.

Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem.