Quotes About Author

I have a recurring role on 'NCIS' and that's been a lot of fun.

If I were to reason like those who roll out red carpets, I would say we might have some repatriations from the City of London.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made.

You'll never see me in the red leather. I don't have the chin for it.

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?

The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).

He's evil. I believe in redemption, but I haven't seen any redeeming qualities in Henry Kissinger.

I was living down in this awful little redneck town in Oregon, and everyone else was living in Seattle, so we rented a house in Portland, between the two.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns reduce crime.

A primary motivation for introducing no-fault divorce was, in fact, to reduce perjury in the legal system.

To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.

I do think our challenge is to balance credibility and a clear message about how we would reduce the deficit with boldness about the choices that we put before the public.

We do prioritize addressing MDR-TB. We have done that for more than 20 years; that's why we've been able to drastically reduce U.S. cases of MDR-TB.

What does everyone in America own? A car. What is the quickest way to reduce our dependence on oil? Embrace hybrid technology.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

Harry Reid and the Senate haven't passed a budget. Their pay should be reduced until they do.

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.