"Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest."

"The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks."

"I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons."

"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."

"My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him."

"We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation."

"In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we're hoping our last one is a Longhorn. It gives us family fun on Thanksgiving Day."

"Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business."