A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves

One day you'll have a quiet heart.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America."

Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.