Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist.

Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.

We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away.

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.

Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.

I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.

If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.

Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.

If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

That was a hell of a thing.

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing.

I believe that the way to a man's heart is not through his stomach. It's a little further south.

Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.

The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.