"People thought once Obama got into office that racism was over with. But, what we ended up learning was that it just came more into the light."

“The party at its best has always been a modern party.”

“To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.”

“I'm always interested in playing different people, in different situationsIt doesn't matter to me whether someone is in love with a man or a woman. I find the idea of love and romance interesting. I'm a sucker for it. I like playing someone who's falling in love because I like the sensation of it. People do extraordinary things when they're falling in love.”

“Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.”

“I could fully express myself in lacrosse.”

“Learn diligence before speedy execution.”

“The First Amendment is now being used by the secularists of our day as a cattle prod to herd conservative religious people out of the public life of the nation and into, as others have put it, a religious ghetto.”

“Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.”