Too much reading is a bad habit. No one likes a girl who squints.

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

A person with a victim complex is unable to set goals and achieve them independently

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

I'll be getting all types of crazy fans, from the hoodest dude to the straight-up dude in a business suit. It's dope. I have a crazy wide-range fan base.

Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years; I'm like a giddy little kid.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

The best way to get away from a crisis and yet hold on the reins without performance is to find a godfather who would save you at crisis and fool the entire world..This is how it has worked for me.

Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.