power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.

Chuck Norris will never have a heart attack. His heart isn't nearly foolish enough to attack him.

A useless life is an early death.

I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

No one gets to tell you what your life means!

He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.'

An excellent indie horror book with a wholly original premise.

I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.