We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.

Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.