Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers.

I don't think of Bush as a particularly angry person - if anything, he has a facility for not harboring grudges, for letting things roll off of his back after momentarily bristling.

Bush made a point of emphasizing to me that unlike his father's administration, his was one of significant "walk-in access" to the Oval Office.

It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed disgust that I would spend time on such an endeavor.

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.

True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.

The world is better served by syncretic economists and policymakers who can hold multiple ideas in their heads than by ‘one-handed’ economists who promote one big idea regardless of context.

Not being aware of all you have to do is much like having a credit card for which you don't know the balance or the limit - it's a lot easier to be irresponsible.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.

I just sing what I'm feeling at the time and hope my fans will like that and appreciate that.

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

Hey." Tod squeezed my hand to draw me out of my thoughts. "I think death looks good on you.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle.

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.