You who speak languages, you are such liars.

I buy way too many books.

I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.

The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it, either. Government office should be received like a child’s Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.