there's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Don’t be unwilling to take those little steps

The devil is the god of this world and he has blinded our eyes.

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

I'm tired of justifying what I've said.

Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.

As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety.

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.