...he believed in God and he believed that when the human is still, the Divine speaks to it, because it is its own.

I'm sometimes scared that I'm forgetting what my dad was like.

A half-truth is a whole lie.

Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.

I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.

I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.

Every dollar the federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free.

Well, it's a Bloody Mary morning, my baby left without warning.

She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.