I had a werewolf morning. Awoke with a rum hangover, imagined blood on the walls, and prayed to god it was mine.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.

In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality

All the women in my family were superb cooks.

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

My aunts still try to fatten me up.

...notice all the many beautiful things, nature, your own soul, stuff other people do.... like help out, smile, create, dance...

An act of mastery is mastery itself.

Power lasts ten years

Vell, Zaphod’s just zis guy, you know?

My core goal is to dismantle, defeat, destroy al Qaeda and its allies that killed Americans and are still plotting to go kill Americans.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

I think Easter is most profoundly about meaning, not mechanism.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.

There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.