You can't be a bad boy without somebody scolding you.

Trust me, I know what I'm doing.

In the Land of Truth, my friend, the man with one fact is King.

I'm not a pacifist, but I'm not a violent person. I mean, I have a gun. I shoot guns, but I wouldn't say I love guns. It doesn't work that way for me.

There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind of exploded that. He was one of the actors who made that go away.

I was never unhappy with the shows. I didn't get into [the writing]. I had an area. My area was my character. My area was what they gave me to do.

My brother spent a large portion of the agonizingly slow drive to school banging his forehead on the stearing wheel.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.

Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

Ever since her trip with Alexia to Scotland, Mrs. Tunstell had rather a taste for foreign travel. Alexia blamed it on the kilts.

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

No one gives you a chance. You have to take chances.

I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion.

Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep

What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.