Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison.

fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.

Study the past if you would define the future.

To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

I mean, the last thing I want to do is be involved in politics.

Along the road you travel, may the miles be a thousand times more lovely than lonely.

I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies

That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.