"Sure, companies say they're sensitive to their employees' cultural heritages, but show up on casual Friday wearing a necklace made from the ears of your vanquished enemies and all hell breaks loose."

“You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.”

“I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime.”

“Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan.”

Source : "William Devane Respects the Text". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.

“In 1976 I was working in the Gulf Country around Cape York, in an aboriginal community of about 300 people. The Health Department sent around a team and vaccinated about 100 of them against flu. Six were dead within 24 hours or so and they weren't all old people, one man being in his early twenties. They threw the bodies in trucks to take to the coast where autopsies were done. It appeared they had died from heart attacks.”

“Writing seems like the only job where what you think and feel really matters.”

Source : Richard North Patterson (2011). “The Final Judgment”, p.104, Macmillan

“There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of mental death spiral: they search for, and find, those index cards that support their world view, and clutch little red books like rosaries in the face of all external evidence. They are ruled by appeals to authority. Their self-image and sense of emotional well-being trumps any and all objective evidence to the contrary.”

Source : "Rafts". Introduction by Bill Whittle to his book "An American Civilization", web.archive.org. June 18, 2006.

“Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.”

“And I really haven't done a damn thing.”