I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.

If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.

You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of us. They should be neither seen nor heard. And no one must make another one.

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.

I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.