Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

Success is not always equal to profit, Failure is not always equal to loss.

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

The level of Personal Responsibility in developed countries is averagely much higher than is seen in developing nations.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven.

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.

...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett.

The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.

A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.

Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.