How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

You trusted me to do things that terrify you because it's what I needed. I can do the same for you. I can hold you. I can let you in.

I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes, and to not just try our tastes is a crime.

Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.

Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

Where is the harm in the wireless industry?

Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.

There's a real danger when people get distracted by peripheral issues. They get distracted by democracy building. They get distracted about military conflicts. We need to focus on defeating jihadism.

When life feels like a yoyo, no matter the ups or the downs know that you'll always end up in the hands of Almighty God.

If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.