I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.