Faith is like a kernel of wheat.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else's.

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.

The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

You're not a real Texan till you've been kicked out of every decent state in America.

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.

Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.

We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.

I've not had a mean life.

Heal the soul first; then healing of the mind and body will follow.