Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple

What is most important when the time comes - and it always will - is to live your life with the coldness of a wolf.

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us.

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion – if there was a religion of the wolf – that it is what it would tell us.

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God’s Word.

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week.

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

On the way I thought about how millions of people drowned so that the first person could learn to swim. The amazing thing is that people still drown.

People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

I really believe things happen for a reason, and sometimes that reason isn't revealed until much much, much, much later.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.