When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently want that person to be thrilled.

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.

There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks American as good as you and me. What's with that?

Corporations! It's like there are these gigantic monsters living among us, and we don't mind that they're monsters because when we look at them they smile and hand us cheeseburgers. That's nuts.

I will not be what I was made, but what I make.

Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.

every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged

A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city. It was more than three miles tall. Below it Hiroshima was boiling.

Gandalf: Often does hatred hurt itself!

It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind.

I read your diary. I KNOW

Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.

Jihad is nothing but making efforts to realise goodness in life.

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

I have seen my Lord with the eye of my heart, and I said: 'Who are You?' He said: 'You.'

I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.