And so, you know, you can be - and I hope that I am - a thinking Muslim.

However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.

I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God.

However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident.

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

Love is not the opposite of power. Love IS power. Love is the strongest power there is.

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.

I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they didn't bring the scorebook to the game that day.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Since being 17, I can honestly say I've only been ill twice on drink. I stop when I feel happy, so I don't throw up.

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

impulses sometimes have logical roots and ought to be given in to.