I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

I enjoyed playing around with Paulie in the Rocky films, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.

I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

Novelist by day

He's lost his colour very far from here, Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

Father' is such an arbitary word. Douche bag, on the other hand.

We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

People who try to be nice are false. They're liars. You should never force your behavior to be a certain way. You should just be. Maybe it's not going to be nice, but at least it'll be honest.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.