"Pride and weakness are Siamese twins."

“My job is to create jobs. In the end I'm going to have jobs to show for it.”

Source : "Nikki Haley Called ‘Condescending, Catty’ By Columnist", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2011.

“The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.”

“I'm working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out at the same time. If I can just die after lunch Tuesday, everything would be perfect.”

“The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.”

“Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.”

“I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we imagine and the things that exist.”

Source : Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

“Being against evil doesn't make you good.”

“The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.”

Source : Zadie Smith (2001). “White Teeth”, p.545, Penguin UK