"There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there."

“Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, oversold indicators, head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed's policy on money supply, foreign investment, the movement of the constellations through the heavens, and the moss on oak trees, and they can't predict markets with any useful consistency, any more than the gizzard squeezers could tell the Roman emperors when the Huns would attack.”

“There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner, and that is the Afrikaner himself. It is when the Afrikaner, like a baboonshot in the stomach, pulls out his own intestines. We must guard against that.”

“You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kenny Rogers from May 04, 2016

“I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.”

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

“I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.”

Source : "Life of Alexander" by Plutarch, translated by John Dryden, 1895.

“Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.”

“The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.”

Source : Peter Straub (2011). “The Throat: Blue Rose Trilogy (3)”, p.75, Anchor

“I have a whole other side that has yet to be seen on screen.”