I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

HOBBES:If you don't get a goodnight kiss you get Kafka dreams.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right.

Now, as I've gotten older I've been able to write more quickly. Sometimes I get in the space of something and I can do a lot in a day.

Every American should have absolute control over his or her personal information

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong.

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.