I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.

I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

Call it not paranoia, but caution.

Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

I'm composing and writing music.

I don't eat vegetables. I only eat food like cheeseburgers, Spam, hot dogs and pizza.

The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.

I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can't even walk into the room when she's watching them with her friends.

American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.