Would you rather have an overachieving 3-Star, or an underachieving 5-Star?

You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare.

We at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC ... in any way, shape or form.

Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.

I was never afraid of failure

It's really important in our society to tell stories, and I feel grateful and honoured that I get to do that in this day and age.

Rock concerts are the churches of today.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty.

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault.

That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet which being in love is.

Art is our defense against hysteria and death.