I don't think fascism is dying for.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

My life needs editing.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

When Obama ran, he said, We can change the world! The world: can you change it back?!

There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.

The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.

One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.

I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world to be my parents' son.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made.

You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map.

Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound.