There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life.

America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.

I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders m.

There aren't many idealists in politics.

[On Washington, D.C.:] There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera destroyed its human victims.

Sleep always eluded the pursuer.

Despite our challenges, hope lies in the reality that our story does not end here.

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

I'm trying to put the ridiculousness to bed. The president of the United States is the president of the United States.

My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

There is something addictive about secrets.

The moon just crapped the bed.

There is no adversity that cannot be overcome by good character.

My father and I, we finally saw each other eye to eye and I think he's seeing me as a man, and I'm seeing him as the father he's always been.