It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.

I could say it was the nights when I was lonelyand you were the only one who'd talk.I could tell you that I like your sensitivity, when you know it's the way that you walk.

So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.

He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.

You'll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worse that can happen to you.

I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.

In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.

As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.

Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

And what exotic part of the world do you come from?

I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.