It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

Faith is a necessary prerequisite for a courageous act

First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general.

They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel.

I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

Occasionally I like a really good pair of shoes. A pair of leather shoes from Gieves & Hawkes in England, Buckshot Brogue, they look really sick.

Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed!

The problem contains the solution.

Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand.

Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.