The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

Oh God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?

Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls. We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat. George! Only joking, Mum.

Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.

We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it.

Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves.