In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.

The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.