I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.

It might have been a new way for her heart to beat.

Tell them stories.

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

A doctor's mission should not be to prevent death, but more importantly it should be to improve the quality of life.

One crime is everything two nothing.

To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.

Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

The bigger a man's gun the smaller his doodlewick.

I am absolutely desperate to win a Super Bowl.

Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

The world is changing and people don't like change.