Each for himself is still the rule We learn it when we go to school The devil take the hindmost, O!

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright.

Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

Afloat.We move: Delicious! Ah, What else is like the gondola?

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.

How pleasant it is to have money.

This world is bad enough maybe; We do not comprehend it; But in one fact can all agree God won't, and we can't mend it.

The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.

If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!

Things always look different from higher up.

I'd rather deal with the consequences of the truth rather than the benefits of a lie.

I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I've been perfecting one voice - in different iterations, sure, but the Russian-ness has always been the undercurrent.

I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.

It’s funny, but I was just thinking I wouldn’t mind a repeat of that boring evening when we elapsed to 1953,” said Gideon. “Just you and me and Cousin Sofa.

Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.

Better never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you; for you only make your trouble double trouble when you do.

Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.

I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.