C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli.

Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.

I want to take ye to bed. In my bed. And I mean to spend the rest of the day thinking what to do wit ye once I got ye there. So wee Archie can just go and play at marbles with his bollucks, aye?

Do you know why we show respect to life when it shows none to us? Family is the answer

You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.

Death is a very important part of life.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Warren [Beatty] loves to talk about his experiences with [Elia] Kazan.

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.