I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks

That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.

God's plan for our lives is a perfect purpose.

Mientras más mengüe tu nivel de inseguridad, más crecerá tu nivel de fe.

You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears.

In our way of working, we attach a great deal of importance to humility and honesty; With respect for human values, we promise to serve our customers with integrity.

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

I do think vajazzles need to stop. The whole thing of glitter-ising your cell phone and your purse and your body needs to stop.

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.