Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.

You never understand life until it grows inside of you.

I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life

I’d prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt." (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)

The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall

I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me.

Only successful businesses can create and secure jobs.

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, "Congratulations, you have an actor!"

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.