Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial

Your eyes betray a sadness that only a worthy man can conjure, but never solve

... the poor always live on debt. At this point, time is the only thing I still have the credibility to borrow.

.... does a fair trial necessarily amount to a fair outcome?

... cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses.

He had the muscular definition of a man who had spent his life restraining elephants in heat.

I appreciate the gesture, but you don't have to undress in order to apologize

Never is a man more proud than when he shuffles paper in front of an illiterate person.

Blood is a reservoir of delights. It is a treasure trove for those who know what to look for, and how to isolate it from the rest of the junk. I know how to do both.

The funnel of my family’s salvation must continue narrowing towards the gallows. That journey cannot begin at the parted tips of another woman’s toes

Abel Muranda fought off furious red ants with mandibles that could cut through a miser's padlock.

The earth is man’s domain.

After coming to God and being revived spiritually, every person should grow spiritually

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

I do like my life very much, yes.

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

Maybe it's because I have too much pride or self-respect, but I thought, 'Why does a guy who has thinning hair and who is overweight have to be a loser or a joke?'