If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

Decadence is wonderful.

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

I am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office myself.

You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.

...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

I write novels and other things.

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

If I can succeed in saving only a single soul I can be sure that my own will be saved.

Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.

The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.

For whatever reason, people know that car crashes can happen but they don't live with that fear every day when they're driving, or they're able to overcome it.

I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times.