In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

No going around it, no short cuts, no laying of hands, no amount of service, no amount of prophecy, without hard work everything else goes to waste.

Thirst is a language even the grass understands.

Only a fool believes that his actions don't shape the world.

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy.

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating.

Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

Vengeance is a dish best served cold. (Thanatos) We’re in Alaska, dickhead. Here everything is cold. (Zarek)

I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded one way or the other by such things.