I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

My life is a very simple life thank you

The good old days are now.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.