Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.

Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.

Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.

There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.

The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.

Fear is the worst kind of grave, because it buries one alive.

A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.

A little hard work, never hurt anyone.

Shoot first and never miss.

Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.

You never know what people will choose to be offended by.

All things come to pass When they do, if they do All things come to their end When they do, as they do. . . .

The degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about yourself.

Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out — Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!