I don't know how many good books I still have in me I hope there are another four or five.

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.

James Ellroy

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Henry Miller

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Publilius Syrus

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

Victor Hugo

Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

Kris Allen

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.

Joan Jett

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

George Eliot

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

David Lloyd

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

Lindsey Graham