It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

But if government is in the business of promoting what is good and suppressing the bad, that is a license for it to stick it’s nose into virtually every human activity.

That smoke you smell is me frying your brains every time we kiss longer than twenty-three seconds.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.

I think [Hillary Clinton] would make a horrible president.

Careerism is the determination to reign in hell rather than serve in heaven.

As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.