If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work.

The power of a soul is the strength of being.

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it's folded.

I'm still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It's not very easy to find them these days.

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.

The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God.

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.