Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

When you love somebody, it's like in a couple - you want to create something. Sometimes, it's a baby.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

I didn't play music, nobody in my family had an instrument or played music, we didn't even have any books at my house. I think about it and I'm like, I don't know how I climbed out of there.

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

If there are moments in my work when people find joy and humour, that's a real success for me.

This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.

"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.

Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust.