A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well.

It is wrong to take half or more of what people earn; wrong to force some people to pay for the support of others, threatening them with jail if they refuse (are in "noncompliance").

A theory accepted by 99 percent of scientists may be wrong.

No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution.

Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged.

I went skiing today, too, yeah. I didn't wanna go. The girl I'm stalking wanted to go, so... I'm not kiddin!

If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning.

If Elmore Leonard met Jim Thompson down a dark alley at midnight they might emerge a week later with thick beards, bloodshot eyes and the manuscript for THE BIG O.

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy.

In order to inspire people, that's going to have to come from somewhere deep inside of you.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.

Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.