I like to kill my enemies and listen to the lamentations of their women

It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life.

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.

As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is the standard trajectory.

America loves to pray, God knows. America prays and prays and prays, it is the land of unchained prayer, and all this ceremonial praying is hard on Billy.

Americans are children who must go somewhere else to grow up, and sometimes die.

She's not stumbling, she's not lost. She's simply romancing her inner animal and falling in love with the wild part of her soul.

We write from soul of the heart.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Negative people are worse than negative occurrences. The argument is over in ten minutes - the person may hang around for years.

Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

It's not just what you do on the pitch, it's what you do off the pitch.

To act choicelessly is to act in accord with the situation. If someone throws a rock, you duck.

Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists... Find some inkling of evidence. There is none.

God has pity on kindergarten children