In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.

I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.

I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

She was drowning—in friendliness, in community—and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

It is better to give a lick than receive one.

That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

When he moves, a streetlight stabs him, and the words flow out like blood.

You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.