I won't say ours was a tough school but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to Be if I Grow Up."

The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.

I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.

You can't do anything with anybody's body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person - you can do only one thing to make it dirty: kill it. Hiroshima was dirty.

Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you.

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

Seek grace and guidance from God.

Take your place among experienced professionals by focusing on ways to learn, grow, and succeed.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

You know if they said kindness or funniness was really most important to them then they will be more likely to say yes to the person that they thought was kind and funny.

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.