And Moses said, "If you should disbelieve, you and whoever is on the earth entirely - indeed, Allah is Free of need and Praiseworthy.

The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.

We stood as the ground shifted and we saw the view from belowthrough tiled floors and concrete stairs, our feet burning holes in the foundation while you whispered of dreams.

The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time.

I can't really fight.

I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.

As powerful as anyone may claim God to be, somehow he always needs money.

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!