If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.

Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.