Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.

I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

Call it not paranoia, but caution.

Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.

The act of living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.

Because when I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior.

Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.

People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.