Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

The world was floods above and fire below

Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.

Time is a universal regressor, time will prove everything

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

One lifetime is not enough to live

If you can’t advertise yourself, what hope do you have of advertising anything else?

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.

But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

I sit at home and read books. I watch movies. I watch television. I go and play golf. I don't go to nightclubs. I don't go out to dinner that often. I'm not a big party guy.

Every day I searched for the star That never was in the sky Now I see that star is on the earth

We have to be alert to the way brands behave and misbehave. We have to reward the good ones with our loyalty and punish the bad ones by avoiding them.