Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.

I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of bad people.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

There are three things in this world that will survive a nuclear explosion: Twinkies, cockroaches and Dean Ambroses.

I am actually as good as everybody else pretends to be. It's scary.

I've got ice water running through my veins, I'm cool.

No one heals himself by wounding another.

I am an unstoppable killing machine. I am the greatest champion that ever walked the face of this planet.

Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.

There's no, 'Oh my God, somebody else is gonna come back and take my spot.' I wanna have a spot that's my spot, that nobody can take away, because nobody else is me.

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.

Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.

You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements of the actual book are being extruded and re-contextualized.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

I think the culture is changing. An example of that is that the commanders truly want the very best person for the job regardless of gender.

Remember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it.