When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.

Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

THE MAN. Can't they realize that mankind was founded on two basic principles? Religion and Death? The one motivates the other. Both motivate the man!

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity.

The seeds for the Descendants were planted in Uncanny X-Force, but I always conceived them as being bigger than just that book.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.