I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.

Such an error, one finds, to do things for the best. They usually seem to be such unpleasant things.

In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.

There are pearls in the deepest fathoms of the Self, but to get them you will have to go through unimaginable perils.

do something from nothing for nothing is nothing unless it is made something. There is always something common with something and nothing and that is the 'thing

We’ll fight Pacquiao, I’ll stop this fight [Carlos Molina] to fight Pacquiao. What would I got to do?

Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences.