We scarified a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too.

I got to eavesdrop at a window. As Clay said, I did have another option. I could wait in the car and let them fill me in later. So, eavesdropping it was.

My songs of life are so secret that I can’t find my tune.

It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked Southern California, where the light is so bright it bleaches the shadows.

Money isn't everything - but it's a long way ahead of what comes next.

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.

I use very few muscles at the best of times.

It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.

He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.