Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves nor half the evil they say of others.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done.

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

I think Americans such as Leviathan have done a lot to expand the sonic palette of black metal.

There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that.

He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row

If you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves.

I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.