Donald Trump

The world moves along at such a fast clip that we have little patience when things are slow, whether it’s the line at a supermarket or Internet access. We’ve become intolerant of those things that cannot be accelerated or skipped entirely. I can’t speed up the foundation work for a building, nor can I expect to play piano like Glenn Gould just because I want to.

I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than to risk peace in pursuit of politics.

When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.

If you get good ratings, they’ll cover you even if you have nothing to say.

Even as entrepreneurs, we rely on people to get things done. We may have the original idea, but moving it forward can involve hundreds of people. Every person becomes integral to the overall success.

Stay confident even when something bad happens. It is just a bump in the road. It will pass.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I’m about as a person and as a writer.

My Twitter has become so powerful that I can actually make my enemies tell the truth.

I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true.

When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

If you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.

My people keep telling me I shouldn’t write letters like this to critics. The way I see it, critics get to say what they want to about my work, so why shouldn’t I be able to say what I want to about theirs?

You can’t interview my brother!… We can call this thing off – right now!

The media is really, the word, I think one of the greatest of all terms I’ve come up with is fake. I guess other people have used it perhaps over the years, but I’ve never noticed it.

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn’t have in your home.

I notice in some of the newspapers that they have taken a bit of an interest in me. According to one headline Jeremy Corbyn welcomed the prospect of an asteroid wiping out humanity. Asteroids are pretty controversial and it is not the kind of thing I would want to rule out… without a full debate at conference and a review so can we have the debate later in the week.

The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.

If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn’t happy.