To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

People perish. Books are immortal.

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

It's like a fairy tale. . . on crack!

You haven't been through one thing that God cannot heal you from.

I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem.

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

When you become a parent, you finally appreciate and understand what your mother did.

Why would you ever rest from what you love?

I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable.

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.