You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

To get where you want to go, you can't only do what you like.

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger

The intellectual scholars who keep saying 'this is wrong' and 'that is wrong', are neither scholars nor intellectuals. In reality, they are more ignorant than the layman.

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.

I feel challenged every day, when I come to work. I feel like I have to step up my game, and that's a great thing.

I hear that in my head all the time now: 'Why don't you go and see?'.

The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.

So.... You are well equipped for our service.' 'Which is?' 'We kill people.

Jerry (Rice) played until he was 42. At 39, I ran a 4.43 40-yard dash. You look at the number of dropped balls and the way guys are playing now and you can't honestly say I can't do better.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.