Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but he must get there first.

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.

Dorian’s going to love this.”She glared. “I swear to God, you tell him, and I’ll” — what the hell could you threaten an alpha with?—“I’ll tell Hawke you want to go on daily bonding runs with him.

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!

The Veteran's Administration is a disaster, the V.A., it's a disaster.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

My nickname is Dickie Jukebox.

If you believe that what you’re doing will have positive results, it will— even if it’s not immediately obvious.

Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.

My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.

Once you have accepted yourself, it's so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.