All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

...There's a difference between desire and desperation. You should never want a guy more than he wants you.

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (8:32)

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying about poisoning a river.

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

I like the excitement you get at touching another human being when you're acting with them and then having a little spark and not knowing what is going to happen in between you.

What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.

I would say Lil Wayne [is the best rapper]. He's all about hard work and consistency.

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you