Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

We must patiently endure the times.

Sorrow fades, " he muttered as he retrieved the last fragment, "grief dies, but Art lives forever.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?

We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it.

If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek Lee is the best player in the league,' that won't affect me either. I'll laugh.

I have always enjoyed being a part of his life. I've always loved him, and he's always loved me.

Often people freeze under severe pressure, but that says nothing about their ultimate capability- only their level of preparation.

I like a girl who doesn't play any games. I like a very sweet girl.

Go pick bananas, we'll run the canal.