Unfortunately, we live in a time when the media are almost a monoculture.

One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.

When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.

You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.

Withholding a decision is a decision.