What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.

I don't think that we should waste our time criticizing other people. Self-criticism allows us to be the best version of ourselves.

What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.

Any expectation is what pain is.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.

Do not delegate an assignment and then attempt to manage it yourself - you will make an enemy of the overruled subordinate.

And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City