My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.

A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.

I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.

I was hated, you know. I made no secret of the fact that I was an atheist. People told me there are no atheists in fox holes. That's nonsense. [interview promoting Marching as to War (2002)]

I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist.

Make the world a better place by resolving to do something good for someone different every day.

You can find tea in a tea cup.. but cannot find world in a world cup.

I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is.

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

Meditation takes time and dedication, but, for me, it's actually just about closing your eyes and being in that moment.

It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico