When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

We are enjoined to love our neighbor, not our tribe.

One person's disapproval shouldn't make you quit. If it's your passion, a thousand people screaming 'No!' still won't stop you!

Laugh as if it's funny, embrace as if it's love, and smile anyway.

Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.

I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.