A conservative doesn't want anything to happen for the first time; a liberal feels it should happen, but not now.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

My life needs editing.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

When Obama ran, he said, We can change the world! The world: can you change it back?!

There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.

The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.

One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.

When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.

Usually when you start the characters, the first thing is the script. Your design work is about telling the story. It's later that casting comes into play, but it's a huge component.

People need to see the authentic people that are still out there, the genuine people that really care.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panoptican.

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.

One of the beautiful things about the idea of living forever is what that does to your soul and how it changes you.

I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth