A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.

This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf

It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

Without dignity, identity is erased.

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

Education leans on teaching teaching cannot be without the teacher!

Knowing how to dream is more important than the story, because the story tells itself.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

The weak against the strong, Is always in the wrong.

Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her.

I'll talk to myself out loud a lot.

I will bring more Korean dance moves and Korean songs overseas.

I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

Government is the enemy until you need a friend.