I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

My life needs editing.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

When Obama ran, he said, We can change the world! The world: can you change it back?!

There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.

The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.

One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

Now as through this world I ramble I see lots of funny men Some rob you with a six gun Some with a fountain pen.

I started a band [Big Japan] for fun. These sticks break easily, but they feel good.

Even though I love fashion, I prefer people to fashion. Fashion is to make the person comfortable in her body, it’s not something very serious, you get to play.

I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.

Study first, play afterwards.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

All Americans (from the vast continent America) were, are, or will be border crossers.

I'm seeing the ball well. I'm not trying for home runs. I'm trying to hit to right field more. When I do that, the home run comes.

If you need someone to come out of the sewer with a wire you don't hire someone who needs laborious collective instruction. You let someone do his job, whether he's a focus puller or a surgeon.