How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

You have my whole heart. You always did.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

A lot of people think I'm retiring, but I've been telling a fib. I've been forced to leave this job because I gave $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

You need a government that believes in government. It also believes in markets and wants to give markets the best, the greatest opportunity, but is trying to govern well.

There is life or death in words.

Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored

I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.