"I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone."

"But most good movies have a gun in them."

"I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me."

"The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons."

"As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions."

"It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out."

"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."