"About cars: They can list with faithful accuracy each model they acquired through the years, how much they paid for each one, its main faults, and why they traded it in - but they couldn't list as many close friends."

“Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.”

“There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.”

“Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of little concern to them.”

“All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...”

“What's interesting is the populace movement of fundamentalism is starting to mirror that approach that elite fundamentalism has long had of trying to have influence across the political spectrum.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

“[On golf:] ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings of hope known to all middle-aged beginners ...”

“So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.”

Source : Concert in Lufkin, Texas, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.

“Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.”