Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

The more you hate, more you think about it, more you increase your own stress.

My path will weaveThe way you sayThere is no doubtYou'll create the way

It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a books

The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.

Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.

In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.

My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.

The biggest gift on Father's Day is if I can be with all my kids.