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.

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.

[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.

Value them

There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

There are no dumb male questions. There are dumb males, but not dumb male questions.

When self-consciousness stops, there is nothing -nothing left to stop, start, begin or end.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you.

The way to create jobs is to encourage private sector job creators.

I don't want to put anyone down, but you won't see any twerking from me.