I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

Honor in the Dust is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

Theodore you have the mind but you have not the body, and without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should. I am giving you the tools, but it is up to you to make your body.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.

The only thing He forgets is our sins.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.

You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.

Ive been married three times and divorced three times.