If you're going to fail...FAIL FORWARD

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Someday I will have to give an account of myself. How would the Father in Heaven judge me if I followed others and not Him?

The scruffier your beard, the sharper you need to dress.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

The problem contains the solution.

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom