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.

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.

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

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

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.

Lucky people will focus on what’s in front of them rather than scrabbling about for what they’re searching for.

He can inspire a group only if he himself is filled with confidence and hope of success.

Hip-hop music, in my opinion, is still very closed-minded, and if you're trying to do something that's too different, you get categorized as trying to do some kind of "alternative hipster" thing.

The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and he probably never would.

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

To me there's no doubt I will be fighting for victory.

One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.

I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.