I embraced her and she did not object at all. She let herself be kissed and kissed back, but coolly, without conviction, absently, as if she were smoking a cigarette.

I've always believed that the only defeats and victories that matter in life are those you lose or win alone, against yourself.

A stranger sleeps next to me, like a stone beside another stone.

The abundance of beards in periods of social unrest, times of revolt or upheaval, should be noted. It's the handiest way people have of making themselves mysterious.

You will face yourself again in a moment of terror and will learn once again that old lesson you keep forgetting: that you can escape from anywhere, but you cannot flee your own self.

As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.

All false religions cut away parts of God’s revelation, add ideas of their own, and come out with various viewpoints that differ from God’s revelation in the Bible.

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.

Unfortunately, we are very poor with PR skills but in serving people- we are superhero.

I think blocking a shot at a crucial point of the game is the most incredible feeling.

Every time I mess up is a chance to practice.

Real love takes work. You have to be willing to make the effort.