For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me.

I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward

When I die, I would love to die smiling. If however I forget this, I hope I have someone there to make me smile.

An angel of God never has wings.

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must be retarded.

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

It's very typical that when two people are having lunch, they put a phone on the table between them.

Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.

I don't like to be a preacher or anything, but the one thing that I've learned is that you truly are what you eat.