Listen Anna, if we don’t believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there’s no hope for us. We’re going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

Literature is analysis after the event.

As I was saying, that’s the dark secret of our time, no one mentions it, but every time one opens a door one is greeted by a shrill, desperate and inaudible scream.

Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.

Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that are important to them ... not you.

The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.

Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.

I've learned that you should only try to be better than who you were yesterday.

Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.

There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a new language.