Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.

People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

I write because I have authority from life to do so.

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

I hate cops. You're either a cop or a reporter. And I hate cops and newspapermen.

While it did smash, breaking a bottle over someone’s head requires a lot more force than movies had led me to believe.

All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.

That's been my forever love affair - Mexican food. But yeah it has to be something savory or cheesy. I'm not tempted by sweets.

When you win and you don't have anyone to share it with, why win? You have someone to share it with you.

What a lovely balance. Lend shows whatever he wants the world to see and you see through whatever the world wants to show you.

Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.

If I give dollars to some charity, nobody cares. I mean, it helps the charity, but nobody cares. But if the Dodgers do the same thing, they bring more focus to issues, and that makes it better.

[Donald Trump] campaigned on an enormous tax cut, and he campaigned on a deregulatory agenda.

Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.