I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it

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.

And medecine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for.

Look, moonI turned silver for you.

Absolutely Nothing" the next 22 miles the highway sign said. Of course it was wrong!

It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

I want to make music that I know that ten years from now, you can put it on and say "This is a great record".