I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.
1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.
To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
It is better to rust out than wear out.
Personally, people know themselves very poorly.
The mind is always present. You just don't see it.
And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.
You change your life by changing your heart.
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
