The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

if you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis.

It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.