A lot of people don't know what they want, you know, or they're just kind of vague about it.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be summarized in one word: chaos.

I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.

The only way you can become brave is, going through the fear but not going away from it.

A Christian is of no sect. He can dwell in the midst of sects, and appear in their services, without being attached or bound to any. He hath but one knowledge, and that is, Christ in him.

To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.

To become immortal, and then to die.

And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.

How come there's no terrorism with humor, which is a great way to humiliate your enemy? It's a great time for that.

I got my career started late so, even though I'm getting older, I don't have as much wear and tear on my arm. I feel good. I really do.

How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn.