Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words on paper will result in a story.

Current "literature" [is] well-written books in which disgusting people do disgusting things to other disgusting people for no apparent reason and with no apparent resolution.

Is there no easy way to taking this dress off you? Am I going to have to rip it off?

They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

Woody Allen is a better actor than anybody from the Actors Studio, and he can be anybody he says he is.

It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones.

I would never walk off any show.

Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth

Bad times don't last, bad guys do.

I am a politician, but I am also a Christian.

If you don't think like a winner, you're not going to be a winner.