People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves... they feel better then. They find it easier to live.

To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself.

Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.

A story can only be contained in a book.

Prawda jest córą czasu poczętą w przypadkowym i krótkotrwałym romansie ze zbiegiem okoliczności.

They are not demons, not devils...Worse than that.They are people.

You mistake the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens

He knew that the disdain for death and crazy courage of youngsters stemmed from a lack of imagination.

Night and day the streets resounded with music, song, and the clinking of chalices and tankards, for it is well known that nothing is such thirsty work as the acquisition of knowledge.

The sword of destiny has two edges. You are one of them.

They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts and confusions, are written for the love of man and in Praise of God, and I'd be a damn fool if they weren't.

Education is the progressive unfolding of our own beauty with the light of knowledge like the blooming of a flower.

Dear God, Let the anointing and the power of the Holy Spirit be mighty upon me, so I can who you want me to be.

...The lies we tell, and let ourselves believe, in the name of love.The first thing you should know is that everyone lies. The second thing is that it matters.

Real men laugh at opposition real men smile when enemies appear.

I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.

He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

Tell that to the BTK killer,” I said. “He was a churchgoer, raised two kids, married, and resisted the urge to kill for decades. He was a person, but he was a monster, too

When love is gone, there's always justice.

There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.