Success is no longer content. It's how it sells.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

The discoveries of my life that were of greatest significance (1) When I discovered love, (2) When I discovered faith and (3) When I discovered one cannot be without the other.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

I just liked to play football, no matter what the position.

I want people to be able to relate to the music, to enjoy the music, in a sense of it being fun and interesting and maybe kind of quirky. I want people to be impacted by the story.

It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.

The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.

Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.” - Carter to Georgina

Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.