They were of the past, and the past always mend itself, no matter how me interfere.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery.

You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

She had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn't bulletproof. She might've been peculiar but she was also human,

Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. It's a lot of crap.

What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason -- and it's not to fail and die.

At the heart of nature's mystery lies another mystery.

A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.

Everything happens for a reason.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is being used.

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.

I don't like my physique. Who does? I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in this way that is rare.

America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.

...HH Beard has perfected ...3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better..... in 1942 and onwards.

Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.