Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

Accept corrections and you’ll improve and increase.

like a soulmate he's your penguin

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

I reject most conventional wisdom.

Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

It takes many years to be a great comedian.

I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?

If a law could keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be virtually no gun crime at all.

Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore.

There's nothing like a great piece of theater - a great performance in a great piece of theater.