I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.

Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria

…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.

But the Dark cannot claim what Light does not surrender.

LINK: .....It’s the imperfections that give you character out here.

...I might mention my belief that girls who like Woody Allen movies are nicer girls than girls who don't...

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.

Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.

I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.