No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

Decadence is wonderful.

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

I am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office myself.

You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.

...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.

If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

I write novels and other things.

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you, ” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.

What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?

Better to teach a man to fish who already loves to fish.

How are his poems?""He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.

You don't need to be the good guy to get a good message out.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

Instead, to be financially free, we need to learn how to make mistakes and manage risk.

A singer must be able to sing any kind of song

It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.