The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.

Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.

Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.

Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble.

Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.

In Rwanda, one person's God is another person's Satan-Thérèse Nyirabayovu

For your full deliverance from your yesterday and your past, God gave you a new field of activity —your calling, so that you can start working according to His plan

Beneath the moons' shadowscape, wisdom, women, whiskey and you are a dangerous and provocative combination...

i go deeper into my head

Weird, even for one of us. Or maybe she's worse.""Worse how?""Normal.

No tears and the writer no tears and the reader.

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.