You never know who anybody is. Even the people closest to you.

When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

...is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?

God brought every one of us into this new time to challenge us.

I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

I don't really take myself very seriously.

Equality is a mortuary word.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.

It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man!