I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. But I didn't. I got to admit the truth. It turned me on.

For most of the guys, killings got to be accepted. Murder was the only way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules.

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.

Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.

Everybody gets pinched but you did it right. You told them nothing and they got nothing. You learned the two greatest things in life: Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

Starlight is best felt at noon...

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

A lack of transparency that fuels the idea that she is either hiding something or simply not someone to be trusted.

Small, seemingly insignificant steps completed consistently over time will create a radical difference

Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

I can’t tell anymore when I’m asleep and when I’m awake, or which is worse.

I'm a Christian. I was born and raised a Catholic. But I think there are people that are frauds that are ministers.

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.