The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!

When passion rises to its full expression, it touches the soul and lifts the spirit.

Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

I am I because my little dog knows me.

I still don't have any crushes on actresses or models. It's always been one of those things with girlfriends. They say, "Who's on your list?" What do you call it, the Get Out of Jail Free card?

You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

It amuses me when I'm described as 'chic.'

I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.