Mark Twain is a universe, and he is also a kind of American authority figure. He can say things to America that other people can't say, in a way that can truly be heard.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

Friends understand the unsaid words, no matter if they are silent for years.

Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts.

Charm is simply a matter of being yourself. Your uniqueness is your power.

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

The Republican Party did not disparage the ruling class, because most of its officials are or would like to be part of it.

In order for us and our families to withstand the pressures of the world, we must be filled with light and gospel truth.

The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.

The vanished lives of all are filled with many shames. Therefore do not judge.