“There is no story unless you’ve written it.”

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.

God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.

I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.

Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.

I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I’ll drink instead!

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Wake up and ponder the future.

As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven’t been told.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

We should never forget the native families of this land past and, present whose story sometimes gets lost in modern times.

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

We all have a part to play in the story of change.

Every great love starts with a great story.

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.