An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through the way [Barack] Obama wants, we will have something very much like the British system.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then you do it for money.

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

I'm one of these people that likes adrenaline and new things, like extreme sports. It makes me feel alive.

Will you please shut the hell up!?

You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered. "You are my heart---and I your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach?

Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend.

You can apply the same heart, the same sense of euphoria to any genre.

We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.

Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.