I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

Reggie, you wrapped your sports car around a telephone pole after drinking a bar." "Yeah... But I was wearing my seatbelt.

Every time I teach a class, I discover I don't know something.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

Your soul mate can turn into your cell mate if the mutual desire for growth isn't there.

As Americans we've gotta make sure that we begin to rebuild and get our military the resources they need to defend us.

The environment can actually affect gene expression.

The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce.