It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

Success is the greatest teacher for future success.

Pieces of your heart broke every day when you were a mother.

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

You are what you do. It's about actions.

When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.

I can think of no greater God-given responsibility we have than that of extending a helping hand to our fellow man.

I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.

I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"