Who said I was wise? I’m a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one.

The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.

I don't think of myself as a lion. You might as well, though, I have a mighty roar.

You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?

**** it, holler them across.

Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors.

A confidence man knows he’s lying; that limits his scope. But a successful shaman ropes himself first; he believes what he says — and such belief is contagious; there is no limit to his scope.

Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.

Nothing has to be funny. Sometimes I just laugh to heal my soul.

One with God stands with majority.

Possibility is not a luxury

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist

I am a boring looking guy with a common face, ugly scars and a toothy smile.

Machines Need to be Productive. People Need to be Effective.

A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species.

The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul.

I am nothing; nothing is everything