I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

judge not that ye be not judged

Exceed expectations" is such a lispy term. I hope that it never infiltrates the bedroom or sport.

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life.

Dogs laugh but they laugh with their tails.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

I was really good at being a bad guy.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.