I can see how, with enough false education, enough widespread illusion and error, men can, while remaining men, believe this and commit the most unspeakable crimes.

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

Guns are part of the American identity.

Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.

I'm getting a little tired of everybody quoting Ronald Reagan.

'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls.

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.