Its hard to measure yourself if nobody is challenging you.

There are two things I eat that I know I shouldn't: chocolate and ice cream. You only live once, so I am going to eat chocolate.

You can never know enough about your characters

The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control.

His shoulder bumped mine again. "Can I ask you something?" I didn't answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don't say that if they don't want to pry something out of you.

The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.

Being president isn't anything like reality TV.

One swallow alone does not make a summer.

Well there you go. Even a psychopath recognized your worth enough to want to kill someone else first." I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.