The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail.

All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.

Money is being made programmable. That's a fundamental change with implications we can still barely see.