Since he registered to vote in 1969, Trump has had more than 40 separate opportunities to vote on Election Day. But when it comes to stepping into a voting booth, Trump falls silent.

“New Yorkers don't easily accept ball­players. They almost always come from somewhere else, itinerants and mercenar­ies, and most of them are rejected. Those who are accepted seem to have been part of New York forever. Hernandez is one of them.”

“On Sunday, April 5, the Fox Broadcasting Company will launch its attack on the Big Three’s primetime programs. Is America ready for FBC? Is FBC ready for America?”

“The intense public interest sur­rounding this case now extends be­yond the early prurient reactions, beyond the photogenic face of Rob­ert Chambers, beyond the upscale setting. The death of Jennifer Levin touched a nerve, particularly after the defense began trying to excuse it.”

“Our failure to devise an effective response to AIDS is partly a product of the silence of our culture. We are raised to regard epidem­ics as relics of distant lands and ancient eras; when an outbreak does occur, it seems unprecedented, unnatural.”

"While it's tempting to celebrate exuberantly the demise of yuppie culture and all the other horrendous phenomena of the Reagan/Thatcher/Koch era, capi­talism is not notable for its equitable division of pain"

"The stock market, which had broken record af­ter record since the ’82 depression, had just experi­enced the financial equi­valent of nuclear war. It was a good excuse to drink"

“Though Tyson lacks Muhammad Ali’s inspired narcissism… for all his reserve, his odd, even eerie combination of shyness and aggression, his is a wonderfully marketable image.”

"Lester ennobled the ludicrous inner life of pop fans by telling the truth about it — by discerning that inner lives, and not music, were what pop music was about"