I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

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

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class.

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.