What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.

Men ought to read the Bible and hear God speak.

Whatever fate ordains, danger or hurt, or death predetermined, nothing can avert.

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle.

Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.

Credulity is always ridiculous.

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize in them is infinitely worse.

Songwriting is an emotional medium, and rock and roll is an emotional medium.