I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!

Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.

Hoboken is a neat place.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.” From “The Education of Robert Nifkin

Today is the yesterday you won't remember tomorrow.

Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes.

Take it easy, friend, " siad Peter, regaining his balance, quickly understanding the condition Henry w

There are so many downsides to the message of looking for miracles.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.

I've never said I'm a communist.

I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.

We are ugly but we have the music.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we normally live our lives and we'd sort of like to find out what it is.

Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.