[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view.

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!

I was getting close to thirty and was trying on the idea of becoming more mature. I was reading more. I had gone out and bought a lot of shirts.

Dear Mr. President, can I ask you a question, when the bombs fall down will they hurt everyone in my family?

Chaos is order yet undeciphered.

I didn't really give a sh** what's going on in the rest of the world. I just didn't. I just wanted to focus on me, me, me, my career, my life, just me - blinders.

I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W.

We're living in a world where the response is really instantaneous, even though it's delayed by a few months. It comes at you pretty fast.

I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.