There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

We’ve got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.

Here's a tip: never get drunk while wearing a hooded sweatshirt. You will eventually think there's someone right behind you.

When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.

You know anything about investigative work?" "Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.

If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place.

I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.

I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting.

If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.