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“Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.”
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“I had this notion that I could convince people who were skeptical of national Democrats to vote for me because I could bring home the bacon, or because I could find some personal pitch to them.”
Source : "Central Casting" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 29, 2006. 
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“If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.”
Source : Introduction by Gerald Durrell to David Butler's book "Quest for the Kakapo" (p. 6), 1989.
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“O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers! And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.”
Source : Andrew Lang “The Selected Works of Andrew Lang”, Library of Alexandria
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“Horatia said eagerly: "Oh, you will take m-me instead?" "No," said Rule, with a faint smile. "I won't do that. But I will engage not to marry your sister. It's not necessary to offer me an exchange, my poor child." "B-but it is!" said Horatia vigorously. "One of us m-must marry you!”
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“I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.”
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“There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.”
