You should be able to have good matches against anybody.

The Haas is here! And you can't see me!

Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters.

My name is CHL. That's Charles Haas Layfield.

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

I would forget it fain, But oh, it presses to my memory, Like damnèd guilty deeds to sinners' minds.

The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival.

What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.

I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.

Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express.

Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.

Also pay attention if a tree or whatnot says something about two bulls.