Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment. Not that you've got to believe that Jesus was real, or not to believe in God, but the belief that it isn't just happenstance.