When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

Never go with a hippie to a second location.

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

...writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

When we think of love, we always think of red, but when I think of love, I think of you instead.

What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.

When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

Choice is always performed against a background of habit.

Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.

As Spengler observed, all urbanized societies seem to develop a subconscious death wish, making individuals indifferent to the survival of their families and their race.

You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.