If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty

Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.

The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.

Intentionality fuels the master's journey. Every master is a master of vision.

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.

"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

I'm a pescatarian - I don't even eat meat!

Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.