“… but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty.”

“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. ”

“I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.”

“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done. ”

“War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is still somehow manages to gather and puddle in certain places, for certain people rather then others.”

“They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.”

“To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.”

“People resent change, I think in some ways, but they forget that they've changed too. I think most of us changed for the better rather than the worst.”

“I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.”

“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”