Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions of other men.

It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

I pass and I stay, like the Universe.

The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one.

I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.

Either you will be under the blood or you will place the blood under you.

Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"

My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.

I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.