Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty

Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.

The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.

It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

loss takes as much as love does, sometimes more

Some people talk the talk and walk the walk while I'm silently running.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

I think there's going to be a very sudden shift in people's perception of the International Space Station, because suddenly it's going to look much, much bigger than it already is.

Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.

Islam religion has no color distinction, we are just Muslims.

I'm healthier in California, probably a little happier, maybe.

Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now