Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.

Forgive them even if they are not sorry

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops.

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.

On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting.

Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.