The one you fight with the most is always the one who’s most like you.

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.

Writing is all about self-expression, we want to speak up, to get it off our chest. Whether we make an impact or not that is not for us to decide

Just because we can doesn't mean we should.

'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.

A vote in 2002 is not a plan to defeat ISIS.

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite.

The room is the beginning of architecture.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain