My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.

And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.

I may have implied on several occasions to several different people that I may have been Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided yet what I am or who I am.

A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.

All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

For your next act, please don't pull any rabbits out of my... well, hat."....He licked playfully at her mouth. "And ya can't call my manhood 'rabbit'.

The place of happiness you can return to is in the arms of the one you love.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

Dreams seem to have a will of their own.

We are all eccentrics in our dreams. Lunatics, even.

The laws of decency enforce themselves.

I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.