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The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.
We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist
It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.
I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.
You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.
I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to.
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.
I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.
The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.
I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.
Today, MTV doesn't play videos anymore, but YouTube certainly has become the next MTV.
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.
There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.
I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.
My son's name is Dirk - I named Dirk Pitt after him when he was about three years old.
If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?
This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.
The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.
Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.
Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.
Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.
If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance
Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?
Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?
If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.
If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.
Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.
I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.
Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant.
There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.