There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.

I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!

I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.

Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering.

Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.

Here I stand; I can do no other.

Hollywood is, I always argue, has a great track record of making good films.

Past failures unlock future successes

I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.

I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.