The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

In the end there will be people who did the work of the Lord. They were busy in the church. They had done many wonderful works. But Jesus Himself says, “I never knew you” [Matthew 7:23 NKJV].

By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan.

They don’t have silences together; they have noise. Mostly his.

In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

I've gained great respect for the Republican leadership. I've gained great respect for many - and I'm going to even say - I mean, in different forms for the people on the dais, in different forms.

To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]

REAL Peace is always unshakable... 'Bliss is unchanged by gain or loss'

The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.

Inner peace comes only as we maintain the integrity of truth in all aspects of our lives.