I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.

Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.

I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.

You do not own the molecules. They are stardust. They belong to God. What you do own is your soul. Nobody can take that away from you.

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.

You don't do things because of the rewards or because someone may remember you after you are gone. The satisfaction is in the doing. Whether or not someone remembers does not really matter.

Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now

I've got a thing for footwear; I have about 200 pairs of shoes from all over the world.

I feel like Ive got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.