My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

My life needs editing.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

When Obama ran, he said, We can change the world! The world: can you change it back?!

There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.

The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.

One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.

We've got a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and fair economy.

I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.

For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.

I'm not that big of a partier. I wasn't concerned about missing out on things in college.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

I don't approve of the use of animals for any purpose that involves touching them - caging them.

Whenever I'm taking time off, all I'm thinking about is working.