You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.

Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do

You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.

I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.

But something cannot be made out of nothing. Dust rose in the air, caught the rays of the sun for a brief moment and sparkled, and then returned to the earth as mere dust.

I'm the beacon of hope, and I have mental powers you never dreamed of. Now be quiet.

We even do not know what we have.

Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.

It is difficult to be ambitious without also being envious.

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

There is very little success where there is very little laughter.

He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

You get an education in school and in college. And then you start to work. and that's when you learn!

I was a short order cook in a pool hall in college. So I am the fastest cook in the world.