I said in 2008 the media is dead in America. Journalism's dead.

Halloween is a liberal holiday because we're teaching our children to beg for something for free. … We're teaching kids to knock on other people's doors and ask for a handout.

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

If someone's not attacking you that means you're not doing your job effectively.

I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.

The U.S. is the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the earth.

The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.

I am a total loser, in every aspect of my life. I rarely go out.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

I never got a job from a poor person.

I think there's definitely billions and billions in waste, fraud and abuse. There's billions that can be generated in the economy by eliminating the bureaucracy.

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?

I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what actors do.

We don't measure the quality of our other relationships by how well the other person turns out, for instance whether my husband is a better person after 10 years than he was when I first met him.

There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.

If you learn to respond as if it’s the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ... because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending.

Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard for me, what I haven't done in the past.

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.