In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

How can a man value any other thing than his own existence?

People should know answers, should know questions. Should know the road to get to the place where they want!

I don't know what's happened to me. I've got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it.

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.

When I meet a fan, I always try to learn something about that fan.

Volleyball was the hardest thing Ive ever had to do.