And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.

You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?''REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.

Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.

He wondered reflectively what would happen if you asked a nun where the Gents was. Probably the Pope sent you a sharp note or something.

The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.

In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts

Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born.

I give money to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what, when I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them and they are there for me.

I'm still getting used to everything. It still makes me a little emotional, just to see how quickly everything kind of changes - that it changes so fast.

When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.

I've signed peoples' parole cards at book signings and it's very touching.

[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein.

It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.

Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.