... but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?

Children see magic because they look for it.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.

The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.

She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.

Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "attaboy".

The medium obscured the message.

If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.

Routine feeds the illusion of safety...

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....

What we enjoy we enjoy, dispute is useless. ~ Aarush Kashyap

Fate is a given, destiny is what we do with it

At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.

The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in some way to write what did happen in a world that doesn't necessarily exist.

Havin' cash is highly addictive, especially when you're used to havin' money to live with.