Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

I take a vitamin every day; it's called a steak.

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

Never use money to measure wealth, son.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

If I have a theological virtue, it is curiosity or inquisitiveness.

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.

Someone should make a Kickstarter to get Taylor Swift a booty.

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.

I sense that what you two [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] share is that you each have a public relationship to the Biblical text and a somewhat private relationship to the Biblical text.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

No man is a hero in his own country.

contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.