Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

When will you be brave enough to recognize your success story?

It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.

[Donald Trump administration] didn't ask me to stay and 40 years seemed like enough.

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.

Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.

Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience