No action is safe from meaning.

What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?

The roots of shame run deep.

Every child is a packet of disappointments, hurts, dangers.

To ask a child to feel sympathy for the poor is harder than getting him to feel sympathy for a chicken or a goat—at least you can see a goat being slaughtered.

Like men who have failed together, they wanted nothing more than to never see each other again.

Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.

Silence is the small man’s only defense.

Artists, who are selfish people, become anxious around the self-sacrificing

Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.

THOSE WHO SAID IT CAN'T BE DONE...SHOULDN'T GET IN MY WAY WHILE I'M DOING IT!

I am not married, no. I wasn't really into the notion when I was younger, but now I think a proposal is the ultimate romantic gesture.

We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.

Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.

Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies.

There is no such thing as too much fun. People need to know it is O.K. to tell jokes and be happy.

The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office.

I was getting ready way too late and the ball was beating me to the strike zone.?

Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can’t do with an ugly one? Nothing. It’s just a matter of preference.