Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

The major cause of problems are solutions

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!

We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

I love Abby Lee Miller. Honestly, if there's such a thing as past lives, I was definitely a dancer.

I love Love - though he has wings, And like light can flee, But above all other things, Spirit, I love thee - Thou art love and life! Oh come, Make once more my heart thy home.

Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

But when she got undressed, it was a big old mess, Sheena was a man...

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.