I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah checks on Beat poetry.

I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over The Onion or Calvin and Hobbes. That was considered completely normal.

There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren’t.

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death".

Our job in life is not to be successful, but to be faithful.

Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government

I must have been chosen because I know it all from beginning to end. I am certainly not the story itself. I am only the grass that tattles on the wind.

To deprive the derelicts of hope is right, and to sustain them in their illusory "pipe dreams" is right also.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

When I met with Deepak Chopra, instead of asking him for something, I offered something. You can always think of things that are not really any costs to you that still have a huge benefit.

The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.

I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.