Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.
Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco
Nobody said it's going to be easy. You have to dig into yourself. Think about your family. Think about the journey itself. THINK IN THE MOMENT.
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.
ISIS rules Muslim apostates every day and then beheads them. Poorly educated guys get Islam for Dummies, petty criminals who think they're suddenly changing their lives because they see the light. The best way to fight them is to show them they don't know Islam at all, and that they are in fact working for the other side.