All you need do, Bernie, ”she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, “is present the truth as fiction.

But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.

If the book’s bad enough, they’ll publish it, and if it’s bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it’ll sell.

And yet Curt’s a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that’s all.

He’s America in action — opposed to quality.

She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.

As long as we persevere, we shall succeed in any endeavour.

Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28.00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself -- the Bank of America.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before.

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength.

The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.