I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.

Stupid kissing. Stupid roaming hands. Stupid boys.

Birds fly and fish swim and I do this.

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

To experience spiritual victory, you must depend on God's resources.

England's not a bad country? It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. 286

The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident.

Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith