Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him.
Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.
Coming from a family of preachers, the idea of giving back has been part of my life as long as I can remember.
Suzanne Collins, it was such a big thing for me to make the handshake with her and to say, 'You can trust me. I will not screw up your books. And I won't let them be diluted and softened. And I won't let them be exploited and made guilty of the sins that are being commented on in the books.' I take that really seriously.
I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money.
I've met people of great faith. I sat in the home of Billy Graham and in the residence of Cardinal Dolan and prayed with these men of God.
I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.
I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.
Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.