If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

If you label it this, then it can't be that.

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

I went to see the Beatles last month... And I heard 20,000 girls screaming together at the Beatles... and I couldn't hear what they were screaming, either... But you don't have to... They're screaming Me! Me! Me! Me!... I'm Me!... That's the cry of the ego, and that's the cry of this rally!... Me! Me! Me! Me!... And that's why wars get fought... ego... because enough people want to scream Pay attention to Me... Yep, you're playing their game.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.