Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf

It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

Without dignity, identity is erased.

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

lessons of medicrity, to a great extent, produce students of mediocrity

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

I love Mexico. I mean, Mexico, I have thousands of people from Mexico that work for me. Thousands. Hispanics.

Very rarely does anyone say that the TV is better than the book.

Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it.

I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.

Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.

Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.