War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.

The script is a bible and it's this unchangeable document that somebody spent years and years on.

Nobody's perfect. I'm perfectly flawed.

If it starts to drag on set, or if you feel like it's not a fun experience, people get down, the energy gets down. You've got to keep the energy up.

Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.

A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.

Elected office holds more perks than Elvis' nightstand.

You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.

I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven't looked at an artist and like thought I want to have a song like this.

You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.