But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.

I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.

There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.

I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.

Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor

They won the war but lost the peace.

Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

I have lived long enough to see God make my enemies my footstool not even footsteps.

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

I assure you that I sleep anywhere, and always like a dormouse.

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

Those bellhops in Miami are tip-happy. I ordered a deck of playing cards and the bellboy made fifty-two trips to my room.

A man's tie should never be louder than his wife.

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.