I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.

I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.

Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.

You are a product of the stories you believe and accept.

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.

I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

As the years go by, I find myself experiencing God's extraordinary concern, consideration, healing, and what I call in my books, the divine therapy.

Black, white, yellow, brown - we wanted somebody who would do right by us. And I think because Obama was that person, whether he was black or white, he was chosen