"Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is."

“Some people don't have a family to fall back on, like I have, and that's when something greater than even that comes in, and that's faith and that's what I have for me, that's what keeps me strong.”

“Today in Washington, D.C., several government buildings were left without power. Of course, the White House will be without power for two more years.”

“I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.”

“The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.”

“Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.”

“The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.”

Source : Jim Dodge (2004). “Stone Junction: An Alchemical Pot-Boiler”, p.384, Canongate Books

“Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.”

“Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.”