I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me.

If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.

The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.

Art should be a place of hope.

Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.

Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the best way to figure out which folks God favours is by checking their bank acounts.