You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.

What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.