Nobody pours stuffing like you do, my friend.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.

To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking.

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

Excite the mind, and the hand will reach for the pocket.

If this is the only life, then why I’m not just doing everything I want to do.

When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.

We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed

We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by ourselves.