I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.

I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do love in politics is this ability it has to make you think in new ways.

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.

Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.