I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

I guess when your stars alignYou do like the solar system and plan it out

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

The idea of ‘calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it was now about serving God in the world

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.