I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.

You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.

When we all sing with one voice, the world will stop and listen.

Success lasts only three seconds. After that you're the same as you were before you had it.

Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.

In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.

There's no future in being poor.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

There is no need to tell someone how to do his job if you have properly trained your team

So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work.

I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me.

I do what I do because I love it.

To Love is to reach God.

Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains...

It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.