Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

Expose the Jesuit order and learn about the global genocide. Speak out, even when what you have to say is not popular.

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

I'd always rather be working - and you know what? My kids would rather me be working. If I stay at home, I'll only buy another car or spend their money.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, thats something a professional golfer has to handle.

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.

Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.

I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.

We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.