I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.

I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the troops were dazzled!

Nothing in life has any business being perfect.

Give me a little peace. A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought.

Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.

I know what you're thinking: why is Chris Rock bagging groceries? But I dropped out of high school in the tenth grade, so if I couldn't tell jokes this is exactly what I'd be doing.

The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.

You should be nice to people because it's better to be nice to people than mean to people, not because you think there's something in it for you.

If God didn't want you to have it, He would never have let you see it.

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

Being patient does not mean being silent.