You, know, the only thing I can be is a writer. I'm absolutely unprepared for anything else. When you've lived the kind of life I have, you are good for nothing. Only writing can save you.

I'll write about my past but I won't talk about it. I'll turn it into art if I can, but I won't talk about it.

I tell you, Richard, if you ever get ready to sell your soul, don’t bother to sell it to another human being. It’s bad business to even consider such a thing.

Because people don't believe it unless it happens to them.

Lasher, ’ she said, ‘for the wind which you send that lashes the grasslands, for the wind that lashes the leaves from the trees.

Breathtaking beauty is just over the barrier that you always fear.

[M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.

Worrying about life doesn't make it any easier, but working tirelessly towards a better lifestyle always does.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.

Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.

Nothing is more stylish than power.

The thing I like about our fans is that they are smart, they are good-looking and we can agree to disagree

No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.