One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.

Pray for whatsoever you will. In the name of Jesus you have permission not only to stand in the presence of God but also to pray for everything you need.

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.

Electricity generation emits more carbon dioxide in the United States than does transportation or industry, and nuclear power is the largest source of carbon-free electricity in the country.

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private.

Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.

Dance music was really leading the way in the U.K., Europe and Australia. America was always about hip-hop and R&B.