I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

Regardless of how old you are, who you were, now you are a peculiar people, specially called

Be grateful for the blessing of the moments.

The man who invented slow-motion movies got his idea while watching a Scotsman reach for a check in a restaurant.

That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.

I have faith in all mankind. Well,not faith really, more like hopeful suspicion. And not "all" but 5 people. Mankind meaning computers.

Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.

God does nothing apart from prayer, but he does everything by it.

Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.

And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.