Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.

My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.

American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.

My first debate in high school--"Resolved: Girls are no good"--and I won!

I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!

In politics, victory is never total.

Kitty waved her free hand to show that she was ok, although she was very tempted to stand over one of Adam’s window-washing puddles and pretend her waters had broken just to see what he would do.

Thanks liver... you are a champ!

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.

The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.

I had a joint once and I didn't feel right for a whole year

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.