One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dubious character.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

Naive people always trying to blame others for their constant heartbreak & failed relationships instead of looking in the mirror & re-evaluating themselves. It's YOU that needs to change.

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

I've always had good energy; I've always had good health.

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.

I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy

I heard Pete Seeger records when I was a kid. I saw Bob Dylan when I was about 12. The first song I ever learned to play was a song by Phil Ochs.

You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books.

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

Making a big life change is pretty scary. But know what's even scarier? Regret.