Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

Whenever I'm broadcasting, I like it. When I'm broadcasting I can't wait to hear what I say.

Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.

I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

We are spectators to violence, and therefore are, how well we don't know and make sure we don't know the difference of real violence to that of simulation.

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.

Whatever the challenge, never quit, never give up, never surrender.

The beauty of a woman is not in her facial makeup but in the kindness of her soul.

Ladies, when you write a poem for Feminism because that is what we sometimes do, remember that it's never about them. It's only about you.

The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human self esteem.

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

I'm trying to create artwork that makes people, and myself, think about judgment as a reflex. This is something that must be changed.

The person that takes over needs to have the skills to manage that ... I believe Andrea [Leadsom] has the edge.

Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.

It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.