What's good and bad, sweet spirit, are in the eye of the beholder.

I'm the only convict who couldn't get into Australia.

The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.

My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

There were people whom I considered friends or loved ones who either abandoned me or betrayed me in ways I'd never have suspected. But there were others who had been barely acquaintances of mine whose loyalty and efforts on my behalf made me realize that not everyone was as inherently rotten as I'd previously believed. So it caused a violent split in my view of humanity - people turned out to be far worse and far better than I'd ever dreamed possible.