If you don't have an ego, you're a wino.

Positive thinking is a good attitude to have. But positive thinking without any skills is a load of crap.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Look at everything as an opportunity to gain experience

Nothing opens up the mind and the heart like books do, and so they have the power to change the whole world. That's why the are burning books, Ava. To stop us thinking, and feeling, and imagining...

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.

Personally, it’s rude. You got three kids with the lady, she just did 17 years for you and you’re not gonna leave your...whatever!

The star of the Magi which pointed so unerringly to the cradle of Christ points not less unerringly to one of the sources from which Christ came.

Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.