You should not have assault rifles in your home.

Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.

I'm very comfortable writing.

When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.

I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.