Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.

If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

The easiest way to disturb or create an element of horror is to take a positive emotion and put it in a negative situation, to create dissonance.

Be not simply good - be good for something.

The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

He [John McCain] is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured.

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.