Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.

I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

"Jem?" he said. "Is it you, James?" "Who else?" Jem's voice.

I gotta take the baton from Chuck Norris.

I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing.

Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.

There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.

I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.