When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

The idea that 20% of the features will get you 80% of the value may well be correct, but it also means that on important tasks, you're giving the customers B-grade experieence where it matters most.

Back on the block they probably call Big Al "Fat Albert" but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends.

Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.

Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don't like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don't necessarily enjoy.

I'm a great fan of Carey Lowell's and I loved Jill Hennessey.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.

Thank God for Redbull and fake eyelashes.

Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.