As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

The real lessons is the reality of living life.

Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.

The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

A lot of men, they don't put anything on their faces. And some women also overdo it.

A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.

The greatest threat to our national security is our debt. We borrow a million dollars a minute.

If you can play the blues, you can do anything.

If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.