I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

come back, come back to me

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t’ hold the stuff as is poured into ‘em.

You've got to play with that killer instinct, man. You've got to hate that guy across from you. Then after the game is over, tell him what a nice guy he is. Shake his hand. Especially if you win.

I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

No matter how well you think you've hidden, you'll always leave behind a trace. And the more you try to hide that trace, the more obvious and troublesome it will become.

That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.

Do you know we are ruled by T.V.?

As Israel becomes like South Africa, it's increasingly becoming a pariah state, being excluded from culture at large.

There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.