If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

I have been lucky that some critics joined the mob in loving something I've done, or in appreciating it. I've been lucky. But most of the critics don't like what the people like. I think they have a very strange job, and they are meant to criticize.

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

We mock the things we are to be.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.