The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.

I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.

But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.