“I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.”

It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,

But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.

I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.

Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.

The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.

I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.

Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.

I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.

And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.

After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.

It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.

I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.

I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.

Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.

I don’t want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven’t done. There’s no “again.” There’s only the future. I hate the past – especially my own past.

Is anything sadder than a trainThat leaves when it’s supposed to,That has only one voice,Only one route?There’s nothing sadder.Except perhaps a cart horse,Shut between two shaftsAnd unable even to look sideways.