Just because your whole life is going to hell doesn't mean you have to walk there.

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

Decadence is wonderful.

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

I am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office myself.

You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.

...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.

If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

I write novels and other things.

First I lost my heart. Then I lost my mind.

It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

There's nothing cooler than a good fitting, worn-in pair of Wrangler jeans, so it's great that with the new Retro line, my fans can go out and rock the same styles that I love.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Peace begins wilt smile.

Why is youth so short and age so long?

Folks, just a few minutes of my voice can change a life.

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.