As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

I don't think of Bush as a particularly angry person - if anything, he has a facility for not harboring grudges, for letting things roll off of his back after momentarily bristling.

Bush made a point of emphasizing to me that unlike his father's administration, his was one of significant "walk-in access" to the Oval Office.

It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed disgust that I would spend time on such an endeavor.

Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.

Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers.

Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.

Cbercbez lafemme. (Find the woman.)

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.

My father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo.

I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.

I'm only interested in heavy metal when it's me who's playing it. I suppose it's a bit like smelling your own farts.

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

Your liberty to swing your arms ends where my nose begins.