It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.

Dan Fouts fumbled the game away for Chargers.

Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

Realism and art cannot live together.

Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.

I can be whatever. You can be whatever. We can be whatever. Whatever, together.

If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

I don't want to be made to look like I'm 25. I'm 39. I don't have any issues with my age.

Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.