I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

Work and you’ll get what you need, work harder and you’ll get what you want.

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks.

Drinking champagne after making love is like taking a bath in chilled pearls.

O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women

Excellence is greater than an achievement; excellence is standard in all my designs

Fate carries its own clock.

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

I thought LeBron James was just going to be another addition to help me score