Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.

Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.

pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.

Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.

Each husband gets the infidelity he deserves.

There's no privacy for the violently dead.

A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles.

Love is like a vast ocean.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

If I want a small take-everywhere camera, I prefer my iPhone 5, which has colors and tonal range superior to any DSLR or compact digital camera I've ever used at their default settings.

Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.

Donald Trump descends in a very powerful way from longstanding tenets of American conservatism, they're just not the movement conservatism we associate with Reagan.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

In my opinion, character is the most important determinant of a person's success, achievement and ability to handle adversity.