Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn its mountains into money.

Hate is only misdirected energy: it gets you nowhere.

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

Skill is fine and genius is splendid but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply or you'd go mad.

A black man will be elected President of the United States. I'm sorry, that's in the year 10,000.

I couldn't sustain myself if I skimped on food - I work 16-hour days, I need the energy, I can't afford to be stingy on what I eat.

It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.

It's not difficult for me to stay healthy. I like healthy food.

Enough no more; Tis not so sweet now as it was before.