We may be a little broken these days but I wouldn't trade it for anything.

You have been given a great power. But no power comes without a price. That is how magic works. How the universe works. All things kept in balance.

So Santa Claus is bogus but Grim Reapers are the genuine article. What does that say about the world?

Nope, there wasn't any getting out of this. Real first name meant business.

The future is never fixed, but always in flux until the moment it meets with the present.

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

What good is a body if I can't have you?

Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.

If I'm going to be president, I will try the best I can, and I'm a very good dealmaker, believe me.

I don't think that I have any musical talent.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

I just like to hear that guys have the same problems that we do.

We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.