Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.
But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty.
The world according to Bubba is simple - if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary.
I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.
Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.
Annis had never been a people person, unless ‘people person’ was defined as a person who ate people.
What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?
A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?
How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?
If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?
Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.
I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.
When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!
But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.
Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.
The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.
It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.
Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.
The Democratic Party would like to see an open independent bipartisan investigation [about hacking].
I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.
Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.
I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'
The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.
Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.
Either we obey God's will who does not kill, or we make our own God's who allow us to make holy wars
Listing and counting have a spooky, magical power, and the holiday season is a spooky, magical time.
Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.
Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.
No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
Some graphic narrative art presses against the panel: you wrestle with it at the level of the paper.
The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.
I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.
You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.
The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.
He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
Imagine that you are in control of your life. Now, the question is: Why do you have to imagine this?