I love ghosts

For Magic to happen in our lives, we need to be open minded about magical things happening

If you're perpetually broke, you should be working hard at overcoming stupidity and not getting rich.

What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.

Endings must come naturally, you're supposed to let it happen, not just to make it happen like that.

I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

I'm liking the idea more and more of just standing up with a microphone and talking.

We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us.

Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!