There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it.

You can make people do anything if they're afraid.

I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.

I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get mired down in something we don't have any idea what to do [with].

Agent Mom is a perfect opportunity for me to do what I love... develop characters, act and take incredible stories to my fans. So yes, I can absolutely see myself cast as Agent Mom.

And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.

A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.

Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.

I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

What do drunkards do? They... drink... themselves... to... death.