“People hate what they know and fear what they don't.”

“A curious mind is never bored.”

“Judge a man by what he tried, not by what he accomplished.”

“People believe in everything, except the reality.”

“People believe in everything except the reality.”

“When someone recommends a book to you, you know two things; that it is a good book and you have a good friend.”

“I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother...”

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

“Id never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.”

“One of the lowest creatures on earth is the politician who tries to eliminate his political rivals using unlawful methods and even violence! To halt the march of such demonic people, never use the ...”

“A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.”

“My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.”

“On the night of New Years Day, I thought of a wonderful New Years resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.”

“The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.”

“He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.”