It was as if life could be shown but never explained, and words - all the words that did not say things directly - were for him the most truthful.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

What reality was ever made by realists?

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

If you see a shot, shoot.

Believe it or don't believe it, Madame. But my feet are tired too. Bloody tired. Like a dead man's.

How come they get to be gray-haired and still in love with each other, while Lilly tears out what's left of my heart and dumps it into her Jill-The-Ripper shredder?

This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.

You hope your buddies will win so you don't have to loan them any money.

Preparedness never caused a war and unpreparedness never prevented one.

My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.

We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.