Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.

If I should die think only this of me that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington.

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

Appreciate life instead of resisting it.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not.

The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins.

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem.