I never know why these people talk to me. I would not talk to me.

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire, I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

When you change, everything around you changes. That’s magic!

What I am trying to achieve is a voice sitting by a fireplace telling you a story on a winter’s evening.

How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

Why does the thin grey strand Floating up from the forgotten Cigarette between my fingers, Why does it trouble me?

Cuba was in some ways a de facto state of the United States before 1959, given its proximity and given its neocolonial status.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

Man needs to choose, not just accept, his destiny.

Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.