And yet Curt’s a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that’s all.

All you need do, Bernie, ”she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, “is present the truth as fiction.

But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.

If the book’s bad enough, they’ll publish it, and if it’s bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it’ll sell.

He’s America in action — opposed to quality.

She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.

You’re the one sitting there with a boner. You’llterrify your charity guys, walking in with that thing pointingat them.

There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

No task rightly done is truly private. It is part of the world's work.

Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

It would be very hard to bring a wife to Afghanistan. In America, I'd have no problem with her doing whatever she wanted, but in Afghanistan, that's not the case.

Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher.

You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself.

It is certain because it is possible.