Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was another.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

Sad stories make good books

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?

When you know better, you do better!

I support the state, but not the state-run economy. The state should intervene only to create the conditions necessary for the private sector to thrive.

Of course it should be pointed out that, though all salvation is through Jesus, we need not conclude that he cannot save those who have not explicitly accepted him in this life.

I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment.

As the family goes, so goes society.

Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.