I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.

You can’t buy time, Nick. Ever. It’s the only thing in life you can’t get most of, and it’s the one thing that will mercilessly tear you up when it’s gone. It takes no pity on no soul and no heart.

When the first "let there be light" spoken, the entire electromagnetic spectrum is emitted.

Which is worse? Lust for the purchasing power of money, or the kind of lust that covets power over others? Let the history of 20th Century socialist revolutions answer that question.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time.

Fashion has changed, and it's continuing to change because, fundamentally, people get bored quicker.

I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.'

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

I have nothing to complain about.