A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

America is just downright mean.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

I’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

Trump has no sense of shame.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

I’m one of those people who says, ‚yes, cinema died when they invented sound.‘

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don’t want my chefs to be cute and adorable.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

I don’t like the name, U2, actually.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

I don’t pay a lot of attention to polls.

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‚Let us pray.‘ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

I’m not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.