You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

judge not that ye be not judged

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.

That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.

One of the cool chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.

It's very difficult to make predictions about the Iranian politics, but given the fact that Ahmadinejad was elected with a very clear purpose - to improve the economy - and he's failed.

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.