Yeah, she's a maverick! And I'm going to say this, and please don't take it the way it sounds. But, Sarah Palin to the GOP, this is what I've got to say: She is very much like herpes - she's not going away. Okay? That's it.

Yeah, she's a maverick! And I'm going to say this, and please don't take it the way it sounds. But, Sarah Palin to the GOP, this is what I've got to say: She is very much like herpes - she's not going away. Okay? That's it.

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.

My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.

I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror.

Animals never worry about heaven or hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.

Class doesn't create culture anymore.

When you have somebody writing or acting for you, you have to be free to have them hate you so you can get your ideas across without worrying.

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

I think old people like Hillary Clinton and I shouldn't try and be cool with social networks, you know; maybe she should leave that stuff up to Chelsea.

The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It's simply vulgar curiosity, and I won't have it.

It could be hectic sometimes when you're being an artist and running a label at the same time. But there are times when you just have to say that this my time period to work on my stuff, and then you say this is the time to concentrate on my artists.

If our friendship depends on things like space and time, we have destroyed our own brotherhood.

It occurs to us that so called freedom fries kill many more Americans than terrorists ever do.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

There is a simple fix to our excessive meeting culture, but it is not easy to implement. It's one of these things that are easy to say but hard to do. The fix is: abandon all recurring meetings. I am serious. All!

I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.

I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.

It's rare that you have a policy issue that can be solved by throwing more money at the problem, but the technology to make bus service more frequent and equip buses with GPS systems that provide real-time schedule updates to bus stops exists and operates in many parts of the world. We should be installing it in our major cities.

I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.

My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.