Git an eyeful of cesspool alley the land of opportunity.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

You will realize your life is most peaceful when you actually stop caring or worrying about things and situations you can not change.

Let me get lost in your heart so that I may find myself in the mirror of your mind.

The struggle hurts now but will be sweet in times of retrospect.

Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.

I had tears coming out of my eyes. And it was the characters that got me there.

Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

Clint Eastwood's a good friend, too - he and I used to play in softball games together.

Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone

My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.