I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces.

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.

Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

I have a photographic memory; I just haven't developed it yet.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

When you wear so many hats in society, you never know who you are. That's the beauty of it. Because once you find out who you are, you're screwed.

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

I know you can be funny without being filthy.

Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.

Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to be who you are.

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

I'm not a computer guy. I have my Smith Corona. I would know nothing about computers.

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.

For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Today's reports confirm that, unfortunately, post-crisis America is still not back to its good economic self.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.