Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.

Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented.

It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that mankind ... has about a 50-50 chance...

I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics.

When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.

No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it's not practical. There are no stereotypes.

There I was, casually wishing that I could stop existing in the same way you'd want to leave an empty room or mute an unbearably repetitive noise.

She was rage and vengeance, wrath and malice, in beautifully twisted human form.

The problem with parents is that they're adults.

Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.

Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.

I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait.

I think if I had just slowed down a little bit it could have a little easier. I multiplied how difficult it needed to be instead of just saying, fair enough. You don't have to make it hard.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.