I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea.

If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

...the wrath of God pales beside that of man.

Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.

We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.

The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.

I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil.

The stuff that works best is driven by passion rather than dollars.

I'd love to do an acoustic album alright, just on stage. That'd be nice.

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.

Cleanse your body and soul, removing malice, selfishness and desire.

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.

Magical music never leaves the memory.

Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.

History marched to the drums of a clear idea...