This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

My life needs editing.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

When Obama ran, he said, We can change the world! The world: can you change it back?!

There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.

The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.

One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.

They will cry, he will shout but you must sweat.

Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind.

Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.

A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.

MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out!

You either have to be first, best, or different.

Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.

One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.