I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.

Bad guys do what good guys dream.

It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.

Beauty, brains, and a complete psycho. My dream girl.

I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives.

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

Justice is a jagged road.

The more I know, the less I sleep.

Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it.

In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car.

If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.

At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.

Wouldn't it be nice if our lives were like VCRs , and we could 'fast forward' through the crummy times?

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults.

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

I read books when I have time. I probably spend a third of the time watching TV, and the rest of it is reading, but I read.

Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.