A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.

I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.

Married life is an existence with bars around it.

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

I refuse to be silenced.

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

Every day I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately I have a great group of friends who help me do this.

I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.

Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.

Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.