Self-Deprecating Sayings

In the proof stage, I nearly cut that last sentence of the book. Had I done so, the sales might have been halved.

I am willing to kill for my people, so I should not be able to lie and cheat for them?

I am optimistic. It doesn't matter if the sky is falling, I am a little man, and you big men are against the sky.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

I am both for - and against.

He has a childlike, boyish, impish, mischievousness. And I have to try and make him behave properly, like a holy man!

No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.

Am I also expected to take up an M-16 and do it myself?

I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up.

I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'

Someone who says 'I am busy' is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

I have a writing room. Actually, it's a one-room studio. There's even a couch. And if you think that's pretentious, go fuck yourself.

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.

You're right. I am crazy. But you know what else? I don't give a fuck.

The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'okay, this is not the move.'

For me to say I wasn't a genius, I would just be lying to you and to myself.

I don't understand this, I'm from Texas.

I did not drive myself there.