Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.

What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.

Even though I smoke, just because I'm a dumbass doesn't mean anyone else has to be.

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?

As a general rule. it's a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And intimacy issue. It's a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

When two enemies are talking, they're not fighting.

You can't just will your dreams to come true. You have to work hard. You have to give 'em wings, arms, legs...whatever it takes to make your dreams come true.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound.

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.

I'll get out of this city alive, even if it kills me!

Fearless people are interesting to watch.