... that "take" was a word people used for those who had so little to give as to be immeasurable.

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.

. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

God created people free, but in order to receive true freedom we have to obey God’s rules

Books are the reality you get to choose

It is a sign of strength not of weakness to admit that you don't know all the answers.

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.

I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.

Sometimes you forget where the heck you are but when you get on stage, you know by the look on the people's faces and the accent in their voices where you might be.

Fans always ask me to marry them so I'll have a lot of wives

So live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you.