"I like to figure out what the production opportunities are for the things I'm interested in before I put pen to paper."

“[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of the Union address, when he proposed guaranteeing health insurance for at least half of the 10 million American children who have none.”

“The love of power excludes all others.”

Source : "I protagonisti" by Indro Montanelli, Rizzoli, (p. 265), 1976.

“Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world.”

“We have a text before us, an ancient text, a living text, and we try to enter it, not only to decipher it, but to penetrate it, to become part of it, similar to the way every student becomes part of a teacher's texture. That's how I see our [with Frank Moore Cross] two differing approaches.”

Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

“Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad.”

“Sometimes it all gets a little too much, but you gotta realize that soon the fog will clear up.”

Source : Song: A Little Too Much, Album: Handwritten, 2015

“Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it.”

“Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.”