All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.

There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.

Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.

Pride does not only come with great responsibility. It is buy one get one free. Great responsibility will require great resourcefulness.

Show mercy. No soul ever was made poor by loving too much, or injured by forgiving too often.

The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

I am a much better father and husband than I ever was a sniper.

Not taking risks ultimately leads to failure.

I have spoken to people in intelligence. And they are big believers in, as an example, waterboarding. Because they say it does work. It does work.

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

Freedom is based on truth, and no man is completely free as long as any part of his belief is based on error.

Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.

I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.