My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Religion is what gives a person hope to keep walking even in the darkest times.

A true Seeker of Love Should find a good Keeper'' The man Seeks and woman Keeps

If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that's very much what I'd prefer to do.

Art does not tolerate reason.

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

I think people start rumors because it creates interest and it makes people look at things and become more interested in what they're looking at.

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.

We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.