What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.

Integral reality is the world’s transparency, a perceiving of the world as truth: a mutual perceiving and imparting of the truth of the world and of man and of all that transluces both.

In the end, everything is simple.

The supersession of dualism in biology begins to occur in this science at the moment when the ‘time’ factor is taken into consideration.

Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs.

Savage and unpredictable, a woman, like the sea, takes what she wants and spits the remains back into the boiling cauldron of humanity ...

I'm not fast. But there are a lot of guys that are a hell of a lot slower than I am. Somebody wants to do a pay-per-view race between me and [Tom] Brady, sign me up.

It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

The Christian world is in a deep sleep; nothing but a loud shout can awaken them out of it!

I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans.

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

The first thing I look for is the humor, because you can tell what the character's fears and insecurities are through the humor.

Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens.