When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

Whenever I'm broadcasting, I like it. When I'm broadcasting I can't wait to hear what I say.

Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.

I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

We are spectators to violence, and therefore are, how well we don't know and make sure we don't know the difference of real violence to that of simulation.

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.

There must be darkness to see the stars.

You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.

The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her.

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.

I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong.

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.

What is so real as the cry of a child?

The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.