I don't think a celebrity endorsement gets you a vote, but it opens the door for you to hear the appeal of the candidate.

There's no confirmation process for the staffers that the president puts around him at the White House. Those are the people he chooses to have around him and to listen to.

The greatest riches are life and good health.

whenever the sun is going up, it's not going down

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.

It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.

Kindness and patience were always called for.

I feel the problems I have are meant to purify me.

For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.

I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.