when you know more than you know, there's more to know

If you don’t take care of the disenfranchised and outcasts of your city, they will come knocking on your door one day with revenge and bitterness

Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are like.

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

There’s no point in fighting the tide. It ebbs. It flows. You ride it.

Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.

The beautiful memories of tofu from when I was young

Don't ever be someone you're not. We are all that we are, so why try to change that?

The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

I go running when I have to. When the ice cream truck is doing sixty.