…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience will answer.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

Neil once told me you had to become a monster so that you didn't become the victim of one instead. I don't care what anyone says. I believe him.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

I don't believe in hero worship.

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

I use the traditional Moyse scale books slightly modified.

Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They're dead.

I'm responsive to my public, but I also follow my heart.

I don't have any of the answers, son. Never did. All I can do is keep asking the questions. Keep trying to make sense of why people do what they do.

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.