Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'

It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.

It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.

I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.

I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy.