Richard Cohen Quotes

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.

I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.

I think what will happen with Donald Trump is there are going to be certain elements of his temperament that will not serve him well unless he recognizes them and corrects them.

I hate therefore I am...

[Donald] Trump's views are objectionable, hateful, but they are not something I dreamt up in my own head.

So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.

Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.

Now you have to decide whether or not you want to be part of the bigotry that is Donald Trump. You have to decide whether you want to be part of the sexism and misogyny that is Donald Trump.

I was always crazy even before the drugs.

Donald Trump's hair frankly. Sometimes you know you're going to get criticism, but you just have to take .

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

I think Donald Trump's going to quickly disappear from radar.

I'm not a politician, I'm a comedian. I know my limitations.

Any little issue - Miss Universe, or whatever it may be - [Donald Trump] is completely unpredictable, he'll go off into outer space.

I'm a golfaholic. And all the counseling in the world wouldn't help me.

I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.

I'm finding that people reading the book [The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star] are saying, "You came from one background, I came from this background - you were a rock star, I was a CEO. I didn't have a heroin/coke problem, but I had a pill problem. But I also fell from grace, didn't know how to get recovery, and I am now in recovery." People tell me that their kids read it and told them they'll never do drugs - "This book really shows me where it goes."

I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

I haven't used that word since I was 7 years old. I don't understand Donald Trump.

Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.

The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.

I don't know which way to take Donald Trump. And only time will tell. Only time will tell.

Granted, I could go out and lose everything (by) gambling and drinking, but there's no sense in denying it. It's in my blood.

I've met people who were destroyed by Donald Trump.