Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.

The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.

If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.

Thin skin is the only kind of skin human beings come with.

Talking too much too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.

After years in utter darkness, I force my eyes into the light. For I must retain my sight, that I might view the wholeness of the void, objectively.

Goonies are good enough, good enough for me

Prana is more powerful than just about anything - food, exercise, skin creams, and Spanx.

I have long believed that what most affects a child is not the divorce, per se, but how it is handled

The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.

And now, with the aid of this common beer glass, I shall play my fifty guinea solo.

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.