It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.

Let me tell you, if you have never seen an agitated squirrel you have seen very little, nor have you heard much, because the sound of an angry squirrel is not to be forgotten.

Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord -- and shotgun do your stuff

Don't try to skin your rabbit and keep it as a pet too.

I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine people working there.

I think I have broken into the mainstream, and I think that may happen in a broader way, but I want to do it on my own terms, not become a standard producer.

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.

They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That’s my motto.

A day without the sun is like you know, night

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

Learn to listen to subtle cues from your spirit instead of the barrage coming from your brain.

Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

When the world question your abilities, respond with your actions.

I think that sometimes I've been a little too nice. I think you have to have a balance. When you're too nice people take you for granted, they take you for a fool I think.

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

Showing up fully exactly where you are is the fastest way to get where you want to go!

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going on. I thought all children must live as I did.

Reality is not optional.