I guess I like to have fun.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

Somehow I find the energy to continue the run. Part of the high that comes after finishing a long run is overcoming the wall, that point when your body crashes but your mind keeps moving you forward.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.

A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary.

We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

People pay to see others believe in themselves.

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.