Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.

Scientists are like atomic nuclei. They are more easily split than fused.

I really don't know enough about the structure of fiction.

I always wanted kids I could take to work, and for them to experience the things I experience. So, having three boys as a footballer was a dream.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.

That is, many times we're not risking our own money, we're risking somebody else's money, or maybe that someone is going to back stop or downside, but we still get the upside.

Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.