I had been writing professionally since 1988

This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf

It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

Without dignity, identity is erased.

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned.

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.

I want it to sound like an orange.

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

I promise to deliver a corruption-free India... people have chosen our government to get rid of black money.

Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.