I suddenly began to realize that everybody in america is a natural-born thief.

Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about dresden.

Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.

There is no There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent law of laws.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.