[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it’s a good plan.

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.

Wit and puns aren't just décor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

Being yourself is so much easier than pretending to be someone else.

When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

I had a Shiatsu dog for 12 years - we were different in size but he was certainly man's best friend, he was my little guy.

Hitler was the first superstar.

That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.

If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.

The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.

You will never see a portrait of my love, for miracles are never seen.