All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

It used to be the custom in this country that when you had made a career and were mature in judgment, you went to the Senate to give something back t the Republic. The idea that at age 25 you go out and buy a blow dryer and starting running for office is not what the founders had in mind

We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.