When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

Find time to meditate and see how you can improve your life and achieve your goals

As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

America is stronger than Russia. Our economy is 16 times larger than the Russian economy.

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends; On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends.

The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.

I don’t follow fashion and I don’t follow trends, I just follow my instincts...