I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on the presidency, and if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it.

History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.

There's a cancer on the presidency.

There's no good that can come out of secrecy.

I've been surfing so many years and it's a pretty strong part of my life so I'm not gonna give that up.

Warrantless wiretapping is an impeachable offense. It couldn't be any clearer.

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump.

Americans like to give their President the benefit of the doubt.

Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.

Granted, terrorism is a real problem everywhere. But you can't prevent it. Terrorists are nutcases who are hellbent on killing people for ideology. That's pretty hard to stop.

Never run from the enemy, tackle them

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

We make our own hell out of the people around us.

There's a part of me that wishes I had gone to school and gotten a business degree, because I almost wonder if that wouldn't be more helpful than my theater degree, in some ways.

I go — as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.

I am rather saddened at the end of a book. I think most writers find this. It's like a friend departing on a voyage.

A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.

I love broad comedy. It has its place. If I were to do that, I'd love to do physical comedy.

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.