The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.

From sunrise to sunset to sunrise, there is a lifetime of joy, sorrow and happiness.

[M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.

Loyalty looks simple... but it ain't.

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears.

Most Americans want health insurance.

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.