Respect and love your readers. Write for the reader.

I don’t get writer's block because I don’t believe in it. I believe you sit in front of the computer and force your fingers to get something on the screen.

Lots of times I’m not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to move forward.

The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.

We must not seek happiness in peace but in conflict.

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.

Late birds get worms while early birds get tired.

Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .

I think there's an innocence to me.

If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.