The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins

...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.

It was some of Solomon’s favorite music because it was dense and intellectually complicated and he wasn’t expected to dance to it.

The Castus had become a myth to most, a shadow, but Thomas knew that every rumor was rooted in truth.

If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters.

Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.

You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.

People are not things, you cannot have ownership.

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.