I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

There have been waves of reform in the past. I see no reason why they wouldn't happen again.

I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow

Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.

I heard those words that every woman fears and never wants to hear, 'You have breast cancer.

Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.

A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won't leave me alone.

But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.

If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

Big Brother is home. He is installed in the item you just dragged home from the Apple store.

It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.

People forget that unauthorized does not mean untrue and authorized does not mean authentic.

Sometimes, I'll be flipping the channel at home and think, 'Wow, there's a lot of me on TV.'

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

I want to serve. I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated.

I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.

I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

Through embracing the diversity of humans beings, we will find a sure way to true happiness.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.

Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence.

If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.

I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

The best thing about my apartment is that it looks over Oscar de la Renta and all the shops.

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.

You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education.

When you're working on a project that's going to take six years, you're weird from the jump.

Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement.

Why wish for the privilege of living your past life again? You begin a new one every morning

Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011.

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

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