You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

waitingin a life full of little storiesfor a death to come

Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

There are many movies that I like, but I'm not sure if they have inspired me.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful?

There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962.

If someone had asked who could stage the best intervention with a crazy woman who had formerly been an undead monster, Sydney Sage would have been my last guess.