You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Some words are wind, ser. Some are treason.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

I'm a big believer in overcoming and achieving and doing things and not feeling sorry for yourself.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either." "Put your books away and I'll show you.

I don't think I began to be a professional writer until I learned my weaknesses and what I couldn't do. This forced me to compensate.