I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do.

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.

It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above all else things that were good would find a way to burrow into you.

You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.

... life is a series of tiny, unavoidable decisions.

The choices she's made have left her without choice.

A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't.

If we serve God, we must not disdain or shun any job, God will not use a lazy man

Conquer hate with love and evil with goodness.

All forms of commerce are adversarial.

You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.

THERE ARE SOME MEN who enter a woman’s life and screw it up forever. Joseph Morelli did this to me—not forever, but periodically.

There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what?

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it.

My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.

God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.