"I fully understood what I was doing when I shot the president. I realized that I was sacrificing my life. I am willing to take the consequences. I want it to be published - I killed President McKinley because I done my duty. I don't believe in one man having so much service and another man having none."

“My advice for achieving success is to make a career choice that reflects your passion. Then work your craft a little bit each day-even if someone's not paying you to do It. Try to balance your social life with your educational (or professional) life, and have patience.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.”

“In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely”

“Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But thats where an interesting conversation begins.”

“There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run.”

Source : Stan Kelly-Bootle (1995). “The Computer Contradictionary”, p.12, MIT Press

“It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.”

“There`s actually some fluidity here in the United States. Using local intelligence against [terrorism].But you still have to infiltrate these groups. You still have to collect intelligence as you see fit. And they are organized. They are very well organized in the anti-abortion movement. Ideologically, they`re almost the same. And that`s where we see these spurts of violence.”

“Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it ‘Italy.'”