Loneliness is not a feeling caused by the lack of people around—it is a feeling caused by the lack of one person.

If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books.

Surrender to love to feel the joy of life.

No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.

Gratitude is something you show in relation to others.

You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.

Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

I think [Pat] Buchanan is far too easily and glibly dismissed.

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.