Candor is a compliment

Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.

I think so many times we focus so much on just the end result when when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal. That was never really what it was all about.

Oh it's fantastic because I get to whip people like David into shape and tell them to go get me coffee. Kidding - okay.

We're all immortal until we die.

What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?