Industries do everything they can to enhance the reputations of the industry and their products.

Coke and Pepsi, with the acquiescence of the FDA, are needlessly exposing millions of Americans to a chemical that causes cancer.

I think, in terms of the media, journalists need to do a much better job of asking people they interview about conflicts of interest and then reporting them.

Scientists should be doing a better job of guarding their own reputations and of the general scientific community.

In the summer, we write life’s summary with the slow waves of love flowing over the sandy beach. The slow breeze and the warm sun write our memories.

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

No, really, " I said. "Now that we know that Flores is really this nasty, fiery, superpowerful nothing-can-kill-me demon from hell, maybe we should consider just giving Christy to him?

While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

I am more than what you bargained for and nothin less than real.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.

The trick is to realize that one is not important, except insofar as one’s example can serve to elucidate a more widespread human trait and make readers feel a little less lonely and freakish.