would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Life is just full of disordered pieces of unachieved plans without solitude.

Character is that which can do without success.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

You're at the hotel and after that you go to the venue and sit there and wait.

Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

Power is a test - the test - of character.

Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

Whatever it is, it feels like it's laughing at me Through the glass of a two-sided mirror.

Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).