You must take the will for the deed.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.

It is love’s nature to be expressed.

Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.

Writer's block is just another name for fear.

As incredible as it seemed, time kept moving forward for the rest of the world.The rest of the world that wasn't waiting.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

Man's greatness does not consist in being different from the animals that share the earth with him, but in being...conscious of things of which his environment has no inkling.

Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.

I am a novelist at heart.