My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.

I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify.

How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

I drink a lot of everything; beer while watching football. I have a taste for whiskey, but Jack Daniels and ginger is about as fancy as it gets with me.

Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.

I absolutely believe in Heaven and Hell. They're just like what the Bible says they are.

If I am a Republican shill, wouldn't you think I am the least amount of a threat to the president?

Pentecostals believe they experience the power of the Holy Spirit at various times. I believe that also since I have experienced it first-hand. It's not something that can be easily explained.

Life has no romance without risk.

He's a male chauvinistic piglet.

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

Artillery is the god of war.

I have to reach "the poetry condition" to write. Then it is as if the border around me is thinned or blurred or erased or disappeared or dead.

Teach the student what needs to be taught. 'Cause black and white kids both take shorts When one doesn't know about the other one's culture, Ignorance swoops down like a vulture.

Plains deceive you; they cause you to think that life is easy! Mountains never deceive you; they teach you the realties! Go to the mountains!

We have a Marlboro Man Theory of leadership and change, especially in America, but in fact anything great that's accomplished is accomplished by many hands.

I am deeply concerned about the kind of people Hillary Clinton's surrounded herself with in the past.