It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.

An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

Fight back! Whenever you are offered violence, fight back! The aggressor does not fear the law, so he must be taught to fear you. Whatever the risk, and at whatever the cost, fight back!

Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.

It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles that are issued to prisoners upon their incarceration.

Blessed are those who, in the face of death, think only about the front sight.

If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.

That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

Rocker dudes don't have a lot of swagger.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

You remind me of everything that followed.

I've always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing.

I write titles that are confrontational. I write titles that make people want to pick up a book and find out more about it. I write good books; I write great titles though.

So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?