D. T. Max Quotes

People are made in such a way that if something inexplicable happens to them, they write it off to an overheated imagination.

I saw [Linus Pauling] as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century’s greatest chemist. No doubt about it.

When Jesus says he will keep you safe, he means it. Hell will have to get through him to get to you.

Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.

...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.

Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchange privacy for intimacy.

You can put anything into words, except your own life

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first li

So, we eat again. Well, perhaps the relationship wouldn’t go anywhere, but I would certainly put on a few pounds.

Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you."Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)

Forgiveness has to be repeated, the bible says seventy times seven.

The soul that is unable to forgive is sentenced to an endless purgatory where time stands still and it is forced to relive its pain over and over onto eternity.

'Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have a superior brain?' 'Uh, ' Eliot said, 'I wouldn't go that far.'

You have exactly 10 seconds to change that look of disgusting pity, into one of enormous respect!

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.

You are loved by your maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your father.

GRACEGRACE is the GIFT of God's Riches' the PEACE of God, The LOVE of God, The HOPE of God.

Fiction is the evidence that reality exists

When you break something, you´re not just breaking the thing, you´re like hurting everyone who made it was.

It is good to know one's enemy.It is better to know one's self.

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.

If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood flows as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them.

The big news of the Bible is not that you fight for God but that God fights for you.

Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

You live in a grim universe.”“That’s risk management for you.

Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff...Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from dread.

Peace is not only the absence of war, but also a way of seeing the world, and the choices we make are how we express and manifest that vision of the world.

God never said that the journey will be easy, but he did said that the arrival will be worthwhile

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.

After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.

Every man has two counties--his own and America.

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture

The power to shape your reality lies within you, therefore the most important voice you will ever hear is your own.

To fit the individual to live and to function in the institutional life of his day.

We, the atom and I, have been on friendly terms, until recently. I saw in it the key to the deepest secrets of Nature, and it revealed to me the greatness of creation and the Creator.

You can't blame anyone else, ..., no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

I don't believe in your God. And he sure as hell doesn't believe in me.

The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.

We're all born with curiosity, but at some point, school usually manages to knock that out of us.

[S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with blood from head to toe. Lee was lying on the floor, quietly pumping out his life through his throat.

Focus on giants - you stumble.Focus on God - Giants tumble.

It's easy to make money when you have a lot of it.

There are no perfect leaders.

Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)

Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.

Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out.

Writer's Block: making authors miserable since the Stone Age.

Any virtue can be taken too far.

Faith is a state of constant examination and openness. In faith we must be vulnerable. Only in this seeming weakness do we live with God.