"I don't know what it is about the human race, but we're always looking for trouble."

"Every time I write a book, I try to make it as good as I can, and then I hope that people will read it."

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

"You can't teach people to be good. You can only make them afraid to be bad."

"People have to talk about something, and it's better to talk about nothing than to talk about something that's important."