My 12-year-old daughter said to me, "Enough with the subtitles, Daddy, for crying out loud." Because they always seem to cloud the issue rather than clarify it.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

All my friends are in my books.

I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

A true warrior can only serve others, not himself...When you become a mercenary, you're just a bully with a gun.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

marriage is a great strain upon love.

There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.

Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what’s happening.

At the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God.