Every person is the right person to act. Every moment is the right moment to begin.

Since after extinction no one will be present to take responsibility, we have to take full responsibility now.

Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.

It appears that no one is so unfortunate that he or she is exempt from spending cuts, while at the same time no one is so fortunate as to be ineligible for a tax cut

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Imagine me going around with a pot belly. It would mean political ruin.

If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one.

The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.

My album was recorded in Nashville. It used to be all about "We're from Texas, forget Nashville," well you'll never hear me say that. Nashville isn't bad as long as you're true to yourself.

Government is a kind of legalized pillage.

I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.

When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries.

We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

I don't hire any companies or ask any of my friends to write reviews for me on Amazon when I have a book come out so they can drive up my ratings on Amazon. I don't have a publicist.