Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?

If you needed some sort of sign, here it is. Get going! You can do it!

I was tired of her getting away with being so young.

A man is nothing more than the things he does to get what he wants.

An echo has no voice of its own.

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

I always beat Jankovic so who do you think I want to play?

You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective.