The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.

People are crazy and times are strange, I'm locked in tightI'm out of range, I use to carebut things have changed.

Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.

Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.

Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.

Who doesnt love a funny girl who can look sexy at the same time?

I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.

Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.

I can't exist without books.

What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.