The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

Never sign a valentine with your own name.

Michelle Obama gives a speech, and everyone loves it. It's fantastic. They think she's absolutely great. My wife, Melania, gives the exact same speech... And people get on her case.

Better good afarre off, then evill at hand. [Better good afar than evil at hand.]

I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

We spend more money on antacids than we do on politics.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

When you give a gift to one of God's children, you give a gift to God.

So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet.