Those trapped in sin will not normally thank you for pointing out the darkness in their lives.
To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.
The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.
Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms.
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
I read continually and don't understand writers who say they don't read while working on a book. For a start, a book takes me about two years to write, so there's no way I am depriving myself of reading during that time. Another thing is that reading other writers is continually inspiring - reading great writers reminds you how hard you have to work.