The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Dear Lord, " she prayed, "please help me to handle all the work You've set before me. I can only do this with You at my side. Amen.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.

Forty-five hundred outstanding lawsuits now for Donald Trump, including Trump University in court .

It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.

The truth always stays the same.

There is no "true Islam," just different interpretations.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.