Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.

Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.

Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.

You are in charge of your own happiness

True blessing comes in the dress of sweats, never delaying to wave bye to the excuses and procrastination. True blessing lies in hard work!

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

How'd you get Magnus to let Jace leave?" "Traded him for Alec," Clary said.

Dreams are more personal. We tend to only dream about issues that impact us directly: our careers, our marriage, our children, our family and friends.

When I get on the airplane, I put on the eye mask. And I travel a lot so I use it all the time.

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible].

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.