Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife.

They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.

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. With George Bush, that charge would never stick.

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.