Don't expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen.

I’ve had a fountain pen surgically implanted in my left index finger to save trouble. My body is tattooed with line upon line of truth, fiction, and a not-always-pleasing mix of the two.

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

You break into my house, I will shoot you. My wife will shoot you and then spend thirty minutes telling you why she shot you.

I think it is an imperfect arms control agreement. It's not a friendship treaty. But when America gives her word, we have to live up to it and work with our allies.

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

If you find yourself lost in the woods, build a house. "Well, I was lost, but now I live here!"

A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep recession, but it just might crash the international financial system.