The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.

Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.

There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein.

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

I may never let go of my wrath, my anger, but I will always have the last laugh.

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

I never imagined, never imagined I would have the opportunity to be governor of the state that I love.

Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.

Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of the story.