May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.

One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.

...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.

We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.

I was tired of being a haunted house' he said. 'Thank you for coming home.

Words have power.

Seriously, that woman is so much crazy crammed into a small space that she's practically a crazy singularity.

Even a life raft is only supposed to get you from the sinking ship back to land, you were never intended to live in the life raft, to drift years on end, in sight of land but never close enough.

Over a seven year span, only 10% of college slaying remained in place.

In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure.

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings.

Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

Sooner or later, a man if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take.