The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours

If I never meet you In this lifeLet me feel the lackA glance from your eyesThen my life Will be yours

I write to reach eternity

All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here.

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

Every man has a right to kill himself.

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.

The rule for J.O.Y is Jesus, Others and You. You can’t have a perfect joy if all you think about is about how to groom your life!

For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

My thoughts lead me in the direction of healing, prosperity, connection, and grace-filled experiences.

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I’ve sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh.

There's all kinds of theories among the cartoonists: start with funniest, end with funniest.

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

We become what we think about all day long. The qustion is, "What do you think about?"