You don't protect any of your individual liberties by lying down and going to sleep.

I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]

I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's

Another lover hits the universe. The circle is broken. But with death comes rebirth. And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet.

Tomorrow is not a promise. Tomorrow is a second chance.

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.

I think he’s handling it with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box.

I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.

Whiskey don't make liars it just makes fools.

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.

When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do I want for this book?"

Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.