"I got in trouble my whole life for having a big mouth."

“..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.”

“I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year.”

“I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.”

Source : "Down from Cold Mountain". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2003.

“I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.”

“I believe my party should never flinch from the requirement that we must continue this progression, otherwise we may end up like the Republican party who lost an election last year that they could have won were it not for their socially conservative agenda. We may have gone two steps forward, but I fear we may have gone one step backwards. The modernisation of the Conservative party is not yet complete.”

Source : "Coalition deadlock as Nick Clegg and David Cameron veto each other" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2012.

“When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.”

Source : Interview with A-J Charron, www.guitarnoise.com.

“As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you.”

“When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.”