And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.