It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

You have to imaginea waiting that is not impatientbecause it is timeless.

I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

This is how memories are made... by going with the flow.

Blueness doth express trueness.

What I find amazing is how sometimes ideas will just click, seemingly without effort.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

People cannot hurt you without your permission.

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.