The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

A sense of humor is needed armor.

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.

Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.

The faithfulness of the Lord is beyond the understanding of men.

In a world full of game players, the only way to set yourself apart is to be a game changer.

I have never cried in the shower. That's a woman thing I think.

The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril

Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.

[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.

She had a short fuse this morning, because it was a day that ended with y, you see.

We must not let ourselves fall into the vortex of pessimism. Faith can move mountains!

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.