I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

A jewelled garden the envy of Aladdin's cave spilled across the courtyard.

Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.

The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that.

You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.

I find Washington audiences are basically the same as every other audience; they watch me and go, 'Who's idea was it to go see him? And is it too late to ask for my money back?'

Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.

Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another.