I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person.

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.

There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.

People in Midland are real nice folks: I can't prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it's just a fact.

I saw a shrink because I thought I suffered from fear of success.