I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

What if you find your soul mate... at the wrong time?

Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions.

If you live at the same time as great contemporaries, you become a flower getting rain live.

The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.

Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

The cross-eyed fool sees one lamp as two; The vision and the viewer are one

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

That leaves Decker and what's his name, Mr. I'm Too Sexy for My Shirt.

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.