I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.

Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.