Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

judge not that ye be not judged

Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

my kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder" lover you should have come over-

I cleared my throat - it isn't frogs you get in your throat; it's memories.

The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.

I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal. Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working person to handle all of a sudden, and I felt I didnt deserve it.

This woman [Hillary Clinton] has been in public, has been a nationally known figure for over 30 years. Why does anybody have to tell us who she is? And why does she need to be "humanized"?

Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing.

The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.