I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

It's very difficult for felons to live in society.

Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case.

If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.

In my religion it's actually better to know you're doing wrong and try to improve that wrong than to think philosophically that what you're doing is right and in fact it is wrong.

If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Stop feeding the ego food, then it will stop asking for more.

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

Every successful person has faced, attacked, and conquered adversity somewhere along the way.

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

I'm uncomfortable with being famous. I hate it. But I love making music. I love getting paid to do it, and I love getting on my boat after I get paid to do it.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.

I kiss him as the train slides into unlit, uncertain land. I kiss him for as long as I want, for longer than I should, given that my brother sits three feet away from me.