Maar als je genoeg kikkers kust, kom je vanzelf wel een prins tegen.

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

Nothing is more prejudicial to war than talk.

Of course, no government official will ever tell you that the cities may be making the people in them ill.

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

The first thing you do is don't let the jobs leave. The companies are leaving.

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

The only one benefiting from this, the American taxpayer, almost half of our taxes, our income taxes, are going to the military and to these wars.

Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good.

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.