The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.

Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

I always think you've just got to move on. If you keep wallowing in the thing that you've done for a while you get a bit stale.

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

As a gut thing, my next project is always the complete opposite of the thing I've just done. So if I've spent a lot of time doing film, I might then do some radio.

I kind of like that thing of you being caught up. You think you can judge someone, and before you know it, you've been swayed by them, and actually you want more of them.

I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go.

Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

If you do not do your God-assigned task, throughout eternity there will be a job that has never been done.

My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.

If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you're business is successful.

Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.

ISIS have to be defeated. They have to be defeated militarily. How are we going to do that if we continue to weaken our military?

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters.