It is better to love truly at seventeen than pretend at thirty.

Kisses are like cardiograms. They reveal how serious the illness is.

The art of war is the art of deception.

Who will present pleasure refrain shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself.

I just loved the feeling of flying. I could jump six feet bareback and it was the closest thing to being Pegasus and flying next to God. It's the most liberating freedom-making feeling in the world.

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.

How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.

Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it.