I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.

You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates

A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

Fear not death

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.

The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.

No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, longed for her, wanted to do more things than there were names for with her.

Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other wild creatures do for themselves.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.