You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what he writes himself.

If you use the term 'over-exaggerate, ' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over.

Guantánamo Bay's motto: 'Safe, humane, legal, transparent detention.' Four adjectives describing one sick joke.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

We cannot trust our own minds, traditions and beliefs.

Every choice is a renunciation. Indeed. Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.

Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.

There's not much makeup in the army, is there? No. They only have that nighttime look, and that's a bit slapdash, isn't it?

You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Every time we've gone somewhere, it's just been better and better and God's always blessed us for following.

I would play football, because I love it.