Well, there are some who claim I'm more of one nation than another, but that's not true, Eddie. I'm of all nations, I play no favorites.

Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken instead to the angel on your shoulder.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who needs a psychiatrist must be crazy.

She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.

All but one of Zoe Pendergraft's friends were dead.

You can't screw up your own suicide and then expect the universe to give you presents wrapped in the skin of a wonderful boy. That's just not the way it works.

Books think for me.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

Attention with intention gets results worthy of mention.

Barack Obama doesn't think this country should be number one. If it were number 35 it'd be fine with him.

Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged.